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Which classic movie was based on a novel by Moundsville native Davis Grubb?
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This woman became poet laureate of West Virginia in 1979.
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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 of the following was NOT a poet laureate of West Virginia?
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This Wheeling resident wrote the novels Thursday April and Roseanna McCoy.
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Author W. E. Blackhurst's novel Riders of the Flood is about which industry?
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Journalist Bruce Crawford served in all these roles except for which one?
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Who wrote the civil rights play Great Gettin' Up Mornin', which was broadcast on CBS-TV?
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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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