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This Fairmont native earned the Rosenthal Award and the William Faulkner Award for best first novel, A Separate Peace.
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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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Author W. E. Blackhurst's novel Riders of the Flood is about which industry?
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In 1938, this Pocahontas County native became the first American woman honored with the Nobel Prize for Literature.
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Which Davis Grubb book was shot almost entirely on site in Moundsville?
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Who served the longest time (38 years) as West Virginia's poet laureate?
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Hubert Skidmore wrote a novel about this disaster.
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Who earned the title of West Virginia poet laureate by winning a writing contest?
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This author's critically acclaimed novels include In the Language of Miracles and A Pure Heart.
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