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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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Journalist Bruce Crawford served in all these roles except for which one?
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Poet Danske Dandridge lived much of her adult life in this Eastern Panhandle county.
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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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This Keyser High School graduate wrote the classic novel Christy about her mother's girlhood in the southern mountains.
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Fairmont native Doris Piserchia was best known for her writing in this genre.
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Hubert Skidmore wrote a novel about this disaster.
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This author's critically acclaimed novels include In the Language of Miracles and A Pure Heart.
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