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What subject was author Mary Meek Atkeson best known for?
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Which institution of higher learning was author, poet, journalist, and educator Waitman Barbe closely associated with?
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Author W. E. Blackhurst's novel Riders of the Flood is about which industry?
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In 1851, illustrator David Hunter Strother and his cousin Philip Pendleton Kennedy documented this famous site in a classic book.
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This author's novel Lost Highway was about a West Virginia country singer.
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In 1927, this Tucker County native became West Virginia's first poet laureate.
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Phyllis Reynolds Naylor wrote which one of these classic books for youth.
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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 Keyser native wrote the memoir Colored People
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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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