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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 author, who lived in Monroe County and Charleston, was one of the most significant journalists of the early 1800s.
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Critic John Peale Bishop was born in this Eastern Panhandle city.
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In 1851, illustrator David Hunter Strother and his cousin Philip Pendleton Kennedy documented this famous site in a classic book.
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Porte Crayon was the pen name of what author?
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Poet Danske Dandridge lived much of her adult life in this Eastern Panhandle county.
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In 1970, "Appalachia" became the first published poem by this author.
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This Keyser High School graduate wrote the classic novel Christy about her mother's girlhood in the southern mountains.
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Who earned the title of West Virginia poet laureate by winning a writing contest?
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This West Virginia filmmaker was also known for writing graphic novels such as Chillers and children's books.
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