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Which Ritchie County native coached basketball teams to two National Invitational Tournament championships and authored a series of books about fictional sports star Chip Hilton?
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Which classic movie was based on a novel by Moundsville native Davis Grubb?
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This Morris Harvey College (now University of Charleston) graduate received the prestigious Newbery Award for the children's book Missing May.
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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 of the following was NOT written by Charleston native Mary Lee Settle?
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Which institution of higher learning was author, poet, journalist, and educator Waitman Barbe closely associated with?
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Many of this prominent writer's short stories were inspired by what he saw in Western Virginia during the Civil War.
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Author W. E. Blackhurst's novel Riders of the Flood is about which industry?
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This author wrote two classic novels about the southern coalfields.
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Who served the longest time (38 years) as West Virginia's poet laureate?
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