"We are celebrating the audience - that every life has a story."įarah's book arrived in stores today. "This kind of a contest has never been done before," said Carrie Cook, a producer who conceived and produced the project. Then, viewers of "Good Morning America" voted by phone and through the Internet after reading profiles of the finalists. After the stories were reviewed by a panel of authors and editors, Farah and two other finalists were teamed with professional writers to produce book-length manuscripts. However, a friend and sponsor, Alyce Litz, convinced her to try. The woman, 17-year-old Farah Ahmedi of Wheaton, Ill., was initially reluctant to join the 6,000 Americans who submitted their stories in essay form. The contest was sponsored by the ABC program "Good Morning, America," and publishing house Simon and Schuster. Ap— - A young Afghan woman who has been in the United States for only three years has been named the winner of a nationwide contest in which Americans were invited to submit their life stories so that one could be selected for publication as a major book.
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