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Who wrote The Best of the National Book Awards Fiction? For the first time in its history, the Award is open to a public vote. Between September 21 and October 21, the public is invited to cast a vote on the Foundation’s Web site: http://www.nbafictionpoll.org.

As part of the run-up to the 60th Anniversary Celebration of the National Book Awards on November 18, the public are invited to vote on the All-time Best of the National Book Awards Fiction. Six Finalists were selected by 140 writers from across the country. To vote, the public can go to the website, then click on one of the listed finalists to make its voice heard. Voters' email addresses will then be entered for a drawing to win two tickets to the 60th National Book Awards on November 18, 2009 and two nights in the Marriott Hotel Downtown, compliments of Marriott!

Harford County Public Library has the finalists available to check out:
The Stories of John Cheever
The Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
The Collected Stories of William Faulkner
The Complete Stories of Flannery O'Connor
Gravity's rainbow by Thomas Pynchon
The Collected Stories of Eudora Welty

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