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Which classic movie was based on a novel by Moundsville native Davis Grubb?
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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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This Fairmont native earned the Rosenthal Award and the William Faulkner Award for best first novel, A Separate Peace.
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Uncle Abner was a popular fictional detective from Harrison County created by this author?
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Which author wrote the acclamed short story "Trilobites," originally published in 1977?
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Which one of the following Thomas Dunn English poems is NOT about West Virginia?
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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 Huntington native's books include The Ballad of Trenchmouth Taggart and A Hanging at Cinder Bottom.
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