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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 author wrote the acclamed short story "Trilobites," originally published in 1977?
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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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Poet Danske Dandridge lived much of her adult life in this Eastern Panhandle county.
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This author was the daughter of the 1924 Democratic candidate for president.
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Which poet laureate wrote a special poem for West Virginia's Sesquicentennial in 2013?
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Maryat Lee founded this theater group in Summers County.
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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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This Huntington native's books include The Ballad of Trenchmouth Taggart and A Hanging at Cinder Bottom.
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