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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 McDowell County native is best known for his books about his hometown of Coalwood?
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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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This author who grew up in Bramwell was one of the most-respected poets of the Harlem Renaissance.
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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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W. E. R. Byrne wrote a class book about this river.
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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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Hubert Skidmore wrote a novel about this disaster.
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