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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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What subject was author Mary Meek Atkeson best known for?
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This McDowell County native is best known for his books about his hometown of Coalwood?
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Which Davis Grubb book was shot almost entirely on site in Moundsville?
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Novelist Mittie Frances Clarke Point wrote under this pen name.
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The mythic lumberjack Tony Beaver was created by this author.
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Phyllis Reynolds Naylor wrote which one of these classic books for youth.
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The Recollections of Fifty Years of West Virginia was written by which governor?
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This Huntington native's books include The Ballad of Trenchmouth Taggart and A Hanging at Cinder Bottom.
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This author's critically acclaimed novels include In the Language of Miracles and A Pure Heart.
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