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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 McDowell County native is best known for his books about his hometown of Coalwood?
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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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Uncle Abner was a popular fictional detective from Harrison County created by this author?
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Which of the following was NOT a poet laureate of West Virginia?
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Author W. E. Blackhurst's novel Riders of the Flood is about which industry?
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Maryat Lee founded this theater group in Summers County.
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Six O'clock Mine Report was a 1989 book by this poet laureate.
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In 1927, this Tucker County native became West Virginia's first poet laureate.
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Hubert Skidmore wrote a novel about this disaster.
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