Rowling, Stewart Win Populist Book Awards

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Oct 11 11:55 PM US/Eastern
y HILLEL ITALIE
AP National Writer

NEW YORK -- J.K. Rowling, Jon Stewart and Stephen King were among the winners Tuesday night of the first annual Quills Awards, people's choice book prizes better known so far to the industry than to the public.

Rowling, author of the multimillion-selling Harry Potter books, won for book of the year and best children's chapter book for "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince."

....Stewart's "America (The Book)" won for best humor book and for best audio book. Stewart gave a brief monologue at the beginning of the ceremony but, in a comic twist, later was unavailable to accept the prizes, apparently having left.

King and Stewart O'Nan won in the sports category for "Faithful," their chronicle of the Boston Red Sox's 2004 season, when the baseball team broke a decades-long jinx and won the World Series.

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[MisterP]

1. I voted in those for Rowling and Stewart! whee!

[Up2Late]

2. WooHoo! Jon Wins! But he didn't write it!?!?

He's just one of the writers of that book, just like on the show.

[Catch22Dem]

3. I hate to nitpick the AP, but...

I hate when I see "First Annual." It can't be annual if it's the fisrt time they've done it, even if they intend to do it again in another year. That's why we say "innagural" instead.

I got hammered in college over this, and I guess it's one of the few things that stuck with me. HAHAHA

[WCGreen]

4. I agree.....

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5. Damn I missed Stewart last night, got hung up watching the

ballgame.

What was on?

[Starbucks Anarchist]

6. A rerun with Jeff Garlin.

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7. Thanks