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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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This Lewisburg native wrote the acclaimed books Town Smokes, The Wrecking Yard, and Dogs of God?
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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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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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Porte Crayon was the pen name of what author?
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Poet Danske Dandridge lived much of her adult life in this Eastern Panhandle county.
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This author wrote two classic novels about the southern coalfields.
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Which poet laureate wrote a special poem for West Virginia's Sesquicentennial in 2013?
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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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