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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 grew up in Bramwell was one of the most-respected poets of the Harlem Renaissance.
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Which author wrote the acclamed short story "Trilobites," originally published in 1977?
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This Wheeling resident wrote the novels Thursday April and Roseanna McCoy.
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Critic John Peale Bishop was born in this Eastern Panhandle city.
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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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Porte Crayon was the pen name of what author?
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Which Davis Grubb book was shot almost entirely on site in Moundsville?
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Which poet laureate wrote a special poem for West Virginia's Sesquicentennial in 2013?
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Six O'clock Mine Report was a 1989 book by this poet laureate.
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