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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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Which of the following was NOT a poet laureate of West Virginia?
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Which institution of higher learning was author, poet, journalist, and educator Waitman Barbe closely associated with?
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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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Critic John Peale Bishop was born in this Eastern Panhandle city.
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W. E. R. Byrne wrote a class book about this river.
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This author was the daughter of the 1924 Democratic candidate for president.
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Maryat Lee founded this theater group in Summers County.
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In 1927, this Tucker County native became West Virginia's first poet laureate.
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Which one of the following recognitions did Martinsburg native Walter Dean Myers NOT receive?
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