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Which institution of higher learning was author, poet, journalist, and educator Waitman Barbe closely associated with?
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Poet Danske Dandridge lived much of her adult life in this Eastern Panhandle county.
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This author was the daughter of the 1924 Democratic candidate for president.
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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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Which one of the following recognitions did Martinsburg native Walter Dean Myers NOT receive?
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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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Which one of the following books was NOT written by Harrison County native Meredith Sue Willis?
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Who earned the title of West Virginia poet laureate by winning a writing contest?
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