Baltimore's most accomplished novelist, Anne Tyler, has done it again -- thanks to your votes.

She beat retiring TV anchor Sally Thorner to advance to the final round of The Baltimore Sun's Celebrity Smackdown, where she'll compete in a one-week runoff with seven others. Most -- Nestor Aparicio, Tom Tasselmyer, Stan Stovall, Stacy Keibler and Dave Durian -- have made their names on TV or radio. But who would have thought Tyler, BSO conductor Marin Alsop and former Gov. William Donald Schaefer would still be in the running?

So who should represent Charm City? Keibler, who's best know as a leggy pro wrestler, or Tyler, a Pulitzer Prize winning writer? Maybe we can offset Keibler's pyrotechnic personality by reviving that stirring 1840 election slogan: Tippecanoe and Tyler Too (for William Henry Harrison, hero of the battle of Tippecanoe, and John Tyler, his Vice President).

You know the drill: Vote Anne, early and often.

Photo by Diana Walker courtesy of Random House