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This Morris Harvey College (now University of Charleston) graduate received the prestigious Newbery Award for the children's book Missing May.
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This woman became poet laureate of West Virginia in 1979.
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Rebecca Harding Davis's classic short story "Life in the Iron Mills" is about factory work in this city.
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Which of the following was NOT a poet laureate of West Virginia?
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Who served the longest time (38 years) as West Virginia's poet laureate?
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Which poet laureate wrote a special poem for West Virginia's Sesquicentennial in 2013?
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Novelist Mittie Frances Clarke Point wrote under this pen name.
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Phyllis Reynolds Naylor wrote which one of these classic books for youth.
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This Buckhannon native won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for her 2023 novel Night Watch, about a mother and daughter in West Virginia after the Civil War.
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Hubert Skidmore wrote a novel about this disaster.
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