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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 Wheeling resident wrote the novels Thursday April and Roseanna McCoy.
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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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In 1938, this Pocahontas County native became the first American woman honored with the Nobel Prize for Literature.
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Which one of the following books did author Betsy Byars NOT write?
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Who served the longest time (38 years) as West Virginia's poet laureate?
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Maryat Lee founded this theater group in Summers County.
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Six O'clock Mine Report was a 1989 book by this poet laureate.
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This Keyser native wrote the memoir Colored People
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Who earned the title of West Virginia poet laureate by winning a writing contest?
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