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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 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 woman became poet laureate of West Virginia in 1979.
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This Wheeling resident wrote the novels Thursday April and Roseanna McCoy.
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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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Journalist Bruce Crawford served in all these roles except for which one?
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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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Who served the longest time (38 years) as West Virginia's poet laureate?
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What style of writing was Ruth Ann Musick best known for?
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