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Which Morgantown native and author is known for popular novels like Flight of the Intruder and Under Siege?
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This author, who lived in Monroe County and Charleston, was one of the most significant journalists of the early 1800s.
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Which one of the following books did author Betsy Byars NOT write?
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W. E. R. Byrne wrote a class book about this river.
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Porte Crayon was the pen name of what author?
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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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This Buckhannon native won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for her 2023 novel Night Watch, about a mother and daughter in West Virginia after the Civil War.
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What style of writing was Ruth Ann Musick best known for?
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