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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 of the following was NOT a poet laureate of West Virginia?
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Author W. E. Blackhurst's novel Riders of the Flood is about which industry?
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This author's novel Lost Highway was about a West Virginia country singer.
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Who served the longest time (38 years) as West Virginia's poet laureate?
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Which poet laureate wrote a special poem for West Virginia's Sesquicentennial in 2013?
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In 1927, this Tucker County native became West Virginia's first poet laureate.
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Phyllis Reynolds Naylor wrote which one of these classic books for youth.
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The Recollections of Fifty Years of West Virginia was written by which governor?
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Who earned the title of West Virginia poet laureate by winning a writing contest?
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