Quills nominees include Al Gore, Stephen King

[icymist]

Quills nominees include Al Gore, Stephen King

Associated Press || Hillel Italie

New York, August 24, 2006
Stephen King, Doris Kearns Goodwin and former Vice President Al Gore were among the nominees announced Tuesday for the second annual Quills Awards - people's choice prizes trying to catch on with the public.

Caroline Kennedy will receive a Platinum Quill Award honouring her "commitment to providing support for education and literacy in New York." The Quills will also acknowledge the 50th anniversary of Profiles in Courage, for which her father, then-Senator John F. Kennedy, received the Pulitzer Prize.

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Starting Tuesday and through September 30, voters can make their picks online at www.quillsvote.com and at www.quills.msnbc.com. King was nominated in the science fiction/fantasy/horror category for his novel, The Cell. Goodwin's Team of Rivals, her biography of Abraham Lincoln, was cited in history/current events/politics, as was Gore's An Inconvenient Truth, the companion to the documentary of the same name about global warming.

The Quills, billed as a combination of "populist sensibility" and "Hollywood-style glitz," were started last year by NBC Universal Television Stations and Reed Business Information, which issues Variety and Publishers Weekly. Ninety-five nominees in 19 categories, from general fiction to cooking, were chosen by thousands of booksellers and librarians and were required to meet one of several possible criteria, such as an appearance on the best seller list of Borders Group, Inc., or a starred review in Publishers Weekly.

Read the article and congratulations Vice President Gore!

[globalvillage]

1. You can vote for VP Gore's book twice

It's nominated for book of the year as well as history/current events/politics.

I bought An Inconvenient Truth. Not only is it important, but it's beautifully done. And lots of cool pics of Al, including one when he was 3 years old (cute).

[icymist]

2. I'll always vote for VP Gore. He's a genius.

I only wish that more people would listen to him.