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Which classic movie was based on a novel by Moundsville native Davis Grubb?
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This woman became poet laureate of West Virginia in 1979.
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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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Critic John Peale Bishop was born in this Eastern Panhandle city.
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This author wrote two classic novels about the southern coalfields.
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Who wrote the civil rights play Great Gettin' Up Mornin', which was broadcast on CBS-TV?
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Which poet laureate wrote a special poem for West Virginia's Sesquicentennial in 2013?
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Phyllis Reynolds Naylor wrote which one of these classic books for youth.
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This Buckhannon native won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for her 2023 novel Night Watch, about a mother and daughter in West Virginia after the Civil War.
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