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This woman became poet laureate of West Virginia in 1979.
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This Lewisburg native wrote the acclaimed books Town Smokes, The Wrecking Yard, and Dogs of God?
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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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Many of this prominent writer's short stories were inspired by what he saw in Western Virginia during the Civil War.
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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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This author wrote two classic novels about the southern coalfields.
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This author is best-known for his 1935 debut novel, Waiting for Nothing, about the Great Depression.
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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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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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