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This woman became poet laureate of West Virginia in 1979.
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What subject was author Mary Meek Atkeson best known for?
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Which of the following was NOT written by Charleston native Mary Lee Settle?
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Author W. E. Blackhurst's novel Riders of the Flood is about which industry?
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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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This author's novel Lost Highway was about a West Virginia country singer.
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Poet Danske Dandridge lived much of her adult life in this Eastern Panhandle county.
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This author was the daughter of the 1924 Democratic candidate for president.
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Novelist Mittie Frances Clarke Point wrote under this pen name.
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Which one of the following recognitions did Martinsburg native Walter Dean Myers NOT receive?
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