A DAY OF AUTHORS

Thank you for your continuing support of ALPHA. We appreciate you hanging in there with us during this pandemic. As you know, it necessitated the cancellation of our in-person A Day of Author events for both 2020 and 2021. We hope you enjoyed our free Virtual A Day of Author’s event we held this year to keep us all entertained and engaged with authors.

We also appreciate all the support we received for our basket fundraiser held late 2020. With your help we raised over $14,000 which we were able to immediately give back to those in much need here in our local community.

We are planning an in-person A Day of Author’s event for spring 2022 and expect to be able to give you a date shortly. Stay tuned.

We hope you join us for our 2022 event. We also invite you to consider joining us as a member. We’re a group of women who both give back to our local communities and know how to have fun. We even have our own book club. We’d love to hear from you. Please do not hesitate to communicate with us via email at alpha.fullerton@yahoo.com or on our Facebook pages at A Day of Authors or Alpha of Fullerton.

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Each spring for over 28 years, ALPHA has hosted “A Day of Authors,” where prominent authors inform and entertain more than 550 book lovers. Presidential historian Doris Kearns Goodwin, biographer A. Scott Berg, Elizabeth ... ...more

About A Day of Authors

Each spring for over 28 years, ALPHA has hosted “A Day of Authors,” where prominent authors inform and entertain more than 550 book lovers. Presidential historian Doris Kearns Goodwin, biographer A. Scott Berg, Elizabeth George, Carol Higgins Clark, Janet Fitch, Lisa See, Amy Ephron, T. Jefferson Parker and many others have spoken to “A Day of Authors” audiences.

Proceeds from this fundraising event benefit the following community groups: St. Jude Medical Center’s “Healthy Beginnings” with our Tiny Togs Program, providing needed layettes and diapers to needy newborns; Operation School Bell (a national program) providing clothes, backpacks and books for school children; Santa’s Closet, which supplies grocery store gift cards to low income families with children for the holidays and Special Families – Emergency Needs, which provides services and equipment to special needs children and their families.

About A Day of Authors

Our Communities are in Need and Together We Can Make a Difference! Assistance League Professional Humanitarian Auxiliary (ALPHA) is a nonprofit organization that positively impacts the communities of Fullerton, Brea, Buena Park, La Habra, ... ...more

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Our Communities are in Need and Together We Can Make a Difference!

Assistance League Professional Humanitarian Auxiliary (ALPHA) is a nonprofit organization that positively impacts the communities of Fullerton, Brea, Buena Park, La Habra, Placentia and Yorba Linda. ALPHA provides backpacks, books, and school clothing through Assistance League’s Operation School Bell©; scholarships to graduating seniors preparing to attend post-secondary schools; personal care kits and birthday gift books to low-income elementary school students; and baby clothes, layettes, diapers, blankets and preschool books in support of St. Jude Neighborhood Clinic.

Professional and Business Women Making a Difference.

ALPHA is comprised of professional or business women who wish to contribute to the community in a meaningful way. ALPHA volunteers commit to financially support and invest their time and varied talents in transforming lives through community programs that meet essential needs, especially those of children and youth. As essential needs are met, families are able to flourish.

Your Partnership Allows Us To Do More!

Financial support goes wholly towards providing less fortunate children, youth and adults in our communities with continued hope toward achieving a better quality of life even during such difficult times as these.

Donations are tax deductible.

ALPHA is a 501(c)(3) Corporation; Tax ID #95-6054959, and all contributions are tax deductible to the extent allowed by law in your particular tax situation. If you are willing, in some way to financially support our efforts to make a difference in our communities, please make your check out to ALPHA and mail it to the above address, or you may give online.

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2021 Virtual Authors

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Christina Lauren

Rufi Thorpe

Maureen Lee Lenker, Moderator

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Christina Lauren

Christina Lauren is the combined pen name of long-time writing partners and best friends Christina Hobbs and Lauren Billings. The co-author duo writes both Young Adult and Adult Fiction, and together has produced fourteen New York Times bestselling novels. Their books have been translated into 30+ languages.

They are the #1 internationally bestselling authors of the Beautiful and Wild Seasons series, Dating You / Hating You, Autoboyography, Love and Other Words,Roomies, Josh and Hazel’s Guide to Not Dating,” My Favorite Half-Night Stand, and The Unhoneymooners. Their latest book is Holidaze.
Rufi Thorpe

Rufi Thorpe is a gifted writer in the adult and young adult genre. Her plots delve deeply into the challenges of young adulthood, and family dynamics. Her latest novel, The Knockout Queen, is described by the LA Times as “..a dazzling, darkly comic novel of love, violence and friendship in the California suburbs…” Queen is full of verve and drawn in colors as vibrant as a David Hockney landscape. She “takes a familiar plotline—a pair of teen misfits form an unlikely but life-altering friendship—and turns it into an arrestingly original, darkly comic meditation on moral ambiguity.” (Kirkus) A stunner of a novel…beautiful, sad, optimistic, and fully engaging.
Maureen Lee Lenker, Moderator

Maureen Lee Lenker is a journalist, writer, producer, and director (and sometimes actor) currently at “Entertainment Weekly.” She has written for “Ms. Magazine,” “The Hollywood Reporter,” “Turner Classic Movies,” “LA Weekly,” and more. She holds a Master’s in Entertainment Journalism from USC and a Master’s in British History from the University of Oxford. When she’s not covering books, movies, television, and theater, she’s either at the beach, writing her own fiction, or watching a classic movie. Her areas of expertise include arts/entertainment journalism, acting, history, english literature, and film.