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Which classic movie was based on a novel by Moundsville native Davis Grubb?
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This McDowell County native is best known for his books about his hometown of Coalwood?
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Rebecca Harding Davis's classic short story "Life in the Iron Mills" is about factory work in this city.
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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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Which one of the following books did author Betsy Byars NOT write?
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This author was the daughter of the 1924 Democratic candidate for president.
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Which Davis Grubb book was shot almost entirely on site in Moundsville?
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This Buckhannon native won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for her 2023 novel Night Watch, about a mother and daughter in West Virginia after the Civil War.
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This Keyser native wrote the memoir Colored People
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This author's critically acclaimed novels include In the Language of Miracles and A Pure Heart.
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