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Many of this prominent writer's short stories were inspired by what he saw in Western Virginia during the Civil War.
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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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Which one of the following Thomas Dunn English poems is NOT about West Virginia?
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Maryat Lee founded this theater group in Summers County.
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Novelist Mittie Frances Clarke Point wrote under this pen name.
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The mythic lumberjack Tony Beaver was created by this author.
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Which one of the following recognitions did Martinsburg native Walter Dean Myers NOT receive?
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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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