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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 classic movie was based on a novel by Moundsville native Davis Grubb?
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This Fairmont native earned the Rosenthal Award and the William Faulkner Award for best first novel, A Separate Peace.
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Critic John Peale Bishop was born in this Eastern Panhandle city.
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Author W. E. Blackhurst's novel Riders of the Flood is about which industry?
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This author wrote two classic novels about the southern coalfields.
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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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Fairmont native Doris Piserchia was best known for her writing in this genre.
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Who earned the title of West Virginia poet laureate by winning a writing contest?
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