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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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Which Morgantown native and author is known for popular novels like Flight of the Intruder and Under Siege?
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This Morris Harvey College (now University of Charleston) graduate received the prestigious Newbery Award for the children's book Missing May.
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This Lewisburg native wrote the acclaimed books Town Smokes, The Wrecking Yard, and Dogs of God?
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Critic John Peale Bishop was born in this Eastern Panhandle city.
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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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Poet Danske Dandridge lived much of her adult life in this Eastern Panhandle county.
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Which one of the following is NOT known primarily as an author of children's books?
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Six O'clock Mine Report was a 1989 book by this poet laureate.
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Phyllis Reynolds Naylor wrote which one of these classic books for youth.
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