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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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What subject was author Mary Meek Atkeson best known for?
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This Lewisburg native wrote the acclaimed books Town Smokes, The Wrecking Yard, and Dogs of God?
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Which of the following was NOT a poet laureate of West Virginia?
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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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Journalist Bruce Crawford served in all these roles except for which one?
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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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This Keyser native wrote the memoir Colored People
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This author's critically acclaimed novels include In the Language of Miracles and A Pure Heart.
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