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In 1938, this Pocahontas County native became the first American woman honored with the Nobel Prize for Literature.
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Porte Crayon was the pen name of what author?
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This author's novel Lost Highway was about a West Virginia country singer.
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In 1970, "Appalachia" became the first published poem by this author.
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This author wrote two classic novels about the southern coalfields.
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This author is best-known for his 1935 debut novel, Waiting for Nothing, about the Great Depression.
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This Keyser High School graduate wrote the classic novel Christy about her mother's girlhood in the southern mountains.
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Six O'clock Mine Report was a 1989 book by this poet laureate.
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Novelist Mittie Frances Clarke Point wrote under this pen name.
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Fairmont native Doris Piserchia was best known for her writing in this genre.
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