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The Hoffman Breast Center at Mount Auburn Hospital invites you to
PINK PAGES: A VIRTUAL EVENING
with Alice Hoffman and your favorite authors

Join Alice Hoffman and Emmy Award-winning arts and entertainment critic and three-time cancer survivor,
Joyce Kulhawik for a virtual evening featuring personal stories and readings from
your favorite authors: Isabel Allende, Anthony Doerr, Ann Leary, Richard Russo,
and Adriana Trigiani. A personal ghost story from Stephen King as well as an
appearance by Denis Leary will make it an unforgettable event!

For questions, please contact Meghan Wilson 617-499-5099 | [email protected]

To purchase the author books please visit the Harvard Book Store.

More information about the evening's participants:

Alice Hoffman is the author of more than thirty works of fiction, including Magic Lessons, The World That We Knew, The Rules of Magic, The Marriage of Opposites, Practical Magic, The Book of Magic, The Red Garden, the Oprah's Book Club selection Here on Earth, The Museum of Extraordinary Things, The Dovekeepers, which Toni Morrison called "? a major contribution to twenty-first century literature", and Practical Magic, which was made into a Warner Brothers film starring Sandra Bullock and Nicole Kidman. Hoffman's advance from Local Girls, a collection of inter-related fictions about love and loss, was donated to help create the Hoffman Breast Center at Mount Auburn Hospital in Cambridge, MA.

Isabel Allende won worldwide acclaim in 1982 with the publication of her first novel, The House of the Spirits. Since then, she has authored twenty-six bestselling and critically acclaimed books, which have been translated into more than forty-two languages. In addition to her work as a writer, Allende devotes much of her time to human rights causes. In 1996, following the death of her daughter, Paula Frias, she established a charitable foundation in her honor, which has awarded grants to more than one hundred nonprofits worldwide on behalf of women and girls. In 2014, President Barack Obama awarded Allende the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the nation's highest civilian honor, and in 2018 she received the Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters from the National Book Foundation. She has also received PEN Center USA's Lifetime Achievement Award. Raised in Chile, she now lives in California. 

Anthony Doerr is the author of Cloud Cuckoo Land, published in September 2021, and the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel All the Light We Cannot See, currently in development as a Netflix limited series. He is also the author of two story collections, Memory Wall and The Shell Collector; the novel About Grace; and the memoir Four Seasons in Rome, all published by Scribner. He has won five O. Henry Prizes, the Rome Prize, the New York Public Library's Young Lions Award, the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Fiction, a Guggenheim Fellowship, and the Story Prize. Born and raised in Cleveland, Ohio, Doerr lives in Boise, Idaho, with his wife and two sons.

Stephen King was born in Portland, Maine in 1947, the second son of Donald and Nellie Ruth Pillsbury King. He made his first professional short story sale in 1967 to Startling Mystery Stories. In the fall of 1971, he began teaching high school English classes at Hampden Academy, the public high school in Hampden, Maine. Writing in the evenings and on weekends, he continued to produce short stories and work on novels. In the spring of 1973, Doubleday & Co., accepted the novel Carrie for publication, providing him the means to leave teaching and write full-time. He has since published over 50 books and has become one of the world's most successful writers. King is the recipient of the National Book Foundation Medal for Distinguished Contribution to the American Letters and the 2014 National Medal of Arts. King lives in Maine and Florida with his wife, novelist Tabitha King. They are regular contributors to a number of charities, including many libraries, and have been honored locally for their philanthropic activities.

Joyce Kulhawik, best known as the Emmy Award-winning arts and entertainment critic for CBS-Boston (WBZ-TV 1981-2008), is currently lending her expertise as an arts critic/advocate, motivational speaker, and cancer crusader. Kulhawik is President of the Boston Theater Critics Association, a member of the Boston Society of Film Critics, and Boston Online Film Critics Association. Kulhawik has covered local and national events from Boston and Broadway to Hollywood, reporting live from the Oscars, the Emmys, and the Grammys. Nationally, Kulhawik has co-hosted syndicated movie-review programs with Roger Ebert and Leonard Maltin. Look for her arts and entertainment reviews online at JoycesChoices.com.

Ann Leary is the New York Times bestselling author of a memoir and three previous novels, including The Good House, which was recently adapted as a film starring Sigourney Weaver and Kevin Kline. Her work has been translated into eighteen languages and she has written for the New York Times, Ploughshares, National Public Radio, Redbook, and Real Simple, among other publications. Her new novel, The Foundling, will be published in May of 2022.  

Denis Leary is a five-time loser at the Emmy Awards. And the Golden Globes. He hopes to one day also lose an Oscar, a Grammy and a Tony. In his long and storied entertainment career, Leary has also never won The Stanley Cup, The Nobel Peace Prize or an argument with his wife. He looks forward to playing Kellyanne Conway in the President Trump biopic. 

Richard Russo is the author of nine novels, two collections of short stories, a memoir, a book of essays, and several produced screenplays.  His novel Empire Falls won the 2002 Pulitzer Prize, and his screenplay for the HBO miniseries was nominated for an Emmy.  He was given the Indie Champion Award by the American Booksellers Association, and in 2017 received France's Grand Prix de Littérature Américaine for Everybody's Fool.  His most recent novel is the bestselling Chances Are? 

Adriana Trigiani is the New York Times bestselling author of twenty books of fiction and nonfiction, including The Shoemaker's Wife. Her books have been published in thirty-eight languages around the world. She is an award-winning playwright, television producer, and filmmaker. Among her screen credits, Trigiani wrote and directed the major motion picture adaptation of her debut novel, Big Stone Gap. Adriana grew up in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia, where she co-founded the Origin Project. She is proud to serve on the New York State Council on the Arts, and lives in New York City with her family.

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