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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 Morgantown native and author is known for popular novels like Flight of the Intruder and Under Siege?
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This woman became poet laureate of West Virginia in 1979.
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Author W. E. Blackhurst's novel Riders of the Flood is about which industry?
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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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In 1970, "Appalachia" became the first published poem by this author.
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Which one of the following Thomas Dunn English poems is NOT about West Virginia?
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Novelist Mittie Frances Clarke Point wrote under this pen name.
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The mythic lumberjack Tony Beaver was created by this author.
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Which one of the following recognitions did Martinsburg native Walter Dean Myers NOT receive?
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