Public gets to vote for book award

[September 22, 2009]  NEW YORK (AP) -- The National Book Awards would like your vote.

Organizers of the prestigious literary prize are asking the public to choose the best fiction winner in the awards' 60-year history.

The six finalists, announced Monday by the National Book Foundation, are: "The Stories of John Cheever," Ralph Ellison's "Invisible Man," William Faulkner's "Collected Stories," "The Complete Stories" of Flannery O'Connor, Thomas Pynchon's "Gravity Rainbow" and "The Collected Stories of Eudora Welty."

Starting Monday, through Oct. 21, votes can be cast through the Web site http://www.nbafictionpoll.org/. The winner will be announced Nov. 18.

[Associated Press]

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