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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 lived in Monroe County and Charleston, was one of the most significant journalists of the early 1800s.
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Which institution of higher learning was author, poet, journalist, and educator Waitman Barbe closely associated with?
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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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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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Which one of the following is NOT known primarily as an author of children's books?
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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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This Keyser native wrote the memoir Colored People
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