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This author who grew up in Bramwell was one of the most-respected poets of the Harlem Renaissance.
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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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Journalist Bruce Crawford served in all these roles except for which one?
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Who wrote the civil rights play Great Gettin' Up Mornin', which was broadcast on CBS-TV?
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Novelist Mittie Frances Clarke Point wrote under this pen name.
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Which one of the following recognitions did Martinsburg native Walter Dean Myers NOT receive?
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Phyllis Reynolds Naylor wrote which one of these classic books for youth.
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Fairmont native Doris Piserchia was best known for her writing in this genre.
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Who earned the title of West Virginia poet laureate by winning a writing contest?
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