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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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This author, who lived in Monroe County and Charleston, was one of the most significant journalists of the early 1800s.
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This author's novel Lost Highway was about a West Virginia country singer.
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Who wrote the civil rights play Great Gettin' Up Mornin', which was broadcast on CBS-TV?
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Who served the longest time (38 years) as West Virginia's poet laureate?
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Which one of the following is NOT known primarily as an author of children's books?
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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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The mythic lumberjack Tony Beaver was created by this author.
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Phyllis Reynolds Naylor wrote which one of these classic books for youth.
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