An Evening with Your Favorite Authors hosted by Alice Hoffman

An Evening with Your Favorite Authors hosted by Alice Hoffman

To benefit The Hoffman Breast Center at Mount Auburn Hospital

Local best-selling author, and breast cancer advocate,  Alice Hoffman, author of many novels including, Practical Magic, The Third Angel, Story Sisters, and soon to be published Green Witch,  will host "An Evening with Your Favorite Authors" at the American Repertory Theatre on Monday, April 26, 2010 to benefit The Hoffman Breast Center at Mount Auburn Hospital.  In addition to Alice, the following authors will be in attendance and will read from their latest works:

Chris Bohjalian is the author of thirteen books, including his brand new novel, Secrets of Eden -- arriving February 2. His other novels include the New York Times bestsellers, Skeletons at the Feast, The Double Bind, Before You Know Kindness, The Law of Similars, and Midwives.

James Carroll is the author of Practicing Catholic, which Hans Kung calls "Brilliantly written, passionate, and vivid." Carroll is also the author of ten novels and five previous works of non-fiction, including the National Book Award winning An American Requiem, the New York Times bestselling Constantine's Sword, now an acclaimed documentary, and House of War, which won the first PEN-Galbraith Award. Carroll's column appears weekly in The Boston Globe.

Drew Gilpin Faust took office as Harvard's 28th president on July 1, 2007. Faust, a historian of the Civil War and the American South, is also the Lincoln Professor of History in Harvard's Faculty of Arts and Sciences. She is the author of six books, including Mothers of Invention: Women of the Slaveholding South in the American Civil War (University of North Carolina Press, 1996), for which she won the Francis Parkman Prize in 1997. Her most recent book, This Republic of Suffering: Death and the American Civil War (Alfred A. Knopf, 2008) looks at the impact of the Civil War's enormous death toll on the lives of 19th-century Americans. It was a finalist for both a National Book Award and a Pulitzer Prize, and named by the New York Times one of the "10 Best Books of 2008".

Elinor Lipman's first and second published stories appeared in Yankee Magazine in 1981 and '82. Into Love and Out Again, her first book, contained seven linked stories. Then She Found MeThe Way Men Act, Isabel's Bed, The Inn at Lake Devine, The Ladies' Man, The Dearly Departed, and The Pursuit of Alice Thrift followed. My Latest Grievance was published in April 2006. In 2001, she received the New England Book Award for fiction. Her latest book, The Family Man, was published May 5, 2009 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. was published in 1990.

Jill McCorkle has the distinction of having published her first two novels on the same day in 1984. Since then, she has published three other novels and three collections of short stories including Ferris Beach, Creatures of Habit, The CheerleaderGoing Away Shoes. Five of her eight books have been named New York Times notable books. McCorkle has received the New England Book Award, The John Dos Passos Prize for Excellence in Literature and the North Carolina Award for Literature. Aside from published fiction, her essays and reviews have appeared in The New York Times Books Review, The Washington Post, The News & Observer, Southern Living, Real Simple and the American Scholar. and most recently

Richard Russo was awarded the 2002 Pulitzer Prize in Fiction for Empire Falls. His other novels include; Mohawk, The Risk Pool, Nobody's Fool, Straight Man and Bridge of Sighs as well as his short story collection, The Whore's Child. Russo's most recent novel, That Old Cape Magic, was published by Random House in August 2009.

Anita Shreve published her first novel, Eden Close, in 1989. Since then she has written 12 other novels, among them The Weight of Water, The Pilot's Wife, The Last Time They Met, A Wedding in December, and Body Surfing. In 1998, Shreve received the PEN/L. L. Winship Award and the New England Book Award for fiction. In 1999, she received a phone call from Oprah Winfrey, and The Pilot's Wife became the 25th selection of Oprah's Book Club and an international bestseller.

with Emcee Joyce Kulhawik, 
Veteran Arts and Entertainment Reporter, cancer survivor and advocate