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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 institution of higher learning was author, poet, journalist, and educator Waitman Barbe closely associated with?
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This author's novel Lost Highway was about a West Virginia country singer.
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Poet Danske Dandridge lived much of her adult life in this Eastern Panhandle county.
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In 1970, "Appalachia" became the first published poem by this author.
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This author wrote two classic novels about the southern coalfields.
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Which Davis Grubb book was shot almost entirely on site in Moundsville?
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Maryat Lee founded this theater group in Summers County.
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Novelist Mittie Frances Clarke Point wrote under this pen name.
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In 1927, this Tucker County native became West Virginia's first poet laureate.
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