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Which Ritchie County native coached basketball teams to two National Invitational Tournament championships and authored a series of books about fictional sports star Chip Hilton?
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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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This McDowell County native is best known for his books about his hometown of Coalwood?
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Which of the following was NOT a poet laureate of West Virginia?
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Author W. E. Blackhurst's novel Riders of the Flood is about which industry?
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This author's novel Lost Highway was about a West Virginia country singer.
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Which one of the following Thomas Dunn English poems is NOT about West Virginia?
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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 High School graduate wrote the classic novel Christy about her mother's girlhood in the southern mountains.
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