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This Wheeling resident wrote the novels Thursday April and Roseanna McCoy.
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Critic John Peale Bishop was born in this Eastern Panhandle city.
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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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Which one of the following books did author Betsy Byars NOT write?
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This author was the daughter of the 1924 Democratic candidate for president.
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In 1970, "Appalachia" became the first published poem by this author.
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This author wrote two classic novels about the southern coalfields.
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This author is best-known for his 1935 debut novel, Waiting for Nothing, about the Great Depression.
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Maryat Lee founded this theater group in Summers County.
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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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