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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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This Lewisburg native wrote the acclaimed books Town Smokes, The Wrecking Yard, and Dogs of God?
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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 author wrote the acclamed short story "Trilobites," originally published in 1977?
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This author was the daughter of the 1924 Democratic candidate for president.
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Which one of the following Thomas Dunn English poems is NOT about West Virginia?
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Which Davis Grubb book was shot almost entirely on site in Moundsville?
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The Recollections of Fifty Years of West Virginia was written by which governor?
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This Keyser native wrote the memoir Colored People
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What style of writing was Ruth Ann Musick best known for?
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