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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 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 woman became poet laureate of West Virginia in 1979.
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Which of the following was NOT written by Charleston native Mary Lee Settle?
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This author was the daughter of the 1924 Democratic candidate for president.
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Which one of the following is NOT known primarily as an author of children's books?
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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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Phyllis Reynolds Naylor wrote which one of these classic books for youth.
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The Recollections of Fifty Years of West Virginia was written by which governor?
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