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Which author wrote the acclamed short story "Trilobites," originally published in 1977?
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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 1851, illustrator David Hunter Strother and his cousin Philip Pendleton Kennedy documented this famous site in a classic book.
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Porte Crayon was the pen name of what author?
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This author's novel Lost Highway was about a West Virginia country singer.
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This author wrote two classic novels about the southern coalfields.
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Which Davis Grubb book was shot almost entirely on site in Moundsville?
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Which one of the following is NOT known primarily as an author of children's books?
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Maryat Lee founded this theater group in Summers County.
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Novelist Mittie Frances Clarke Point wrote under this pen name.
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