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This McDowell County native is best known for his books about his hometown of Coalwood?
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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 Thomas Dunn English poems is NOT about West Virginia?
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Which Davis Grubb book was shot almost entirely on site in Moundsville?
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The mythic lumberjack Tony Beaver was created by this author.
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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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Fairmont native Doris Piserchia was best known for her writing in this genre.
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Hubert Skidmore wrote a novel about this disaster.
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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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This author's critically acclaimed novels include In the Language of Miracles and A Pure Heart.
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