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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 Wheeling resident wrote the novels Thursday April and Roseanna McCoy.
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Critic John Peale Bishop was born in this Eastern Panhandle city.
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In 1938, this Pocahontas County native became the first American woman honored with the Nobel Prize for Literature.
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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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Who served the longest time (38 years) as West Virginia's poet laureate?
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In 1927, this Tucker County native became West Virginia's first poet laureate.
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This author's critically acclaimed novels include In the Language of Miracles and A Pure Heart.
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