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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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This Wheeling resident wrote the novels Thursday April and Roseanna McCoy.
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Author W. E. Blackhurst's novel Riders of the Flood is about which industry?
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Poet Danske Dandridge lived much of her adult life in this Eastern Panhandle 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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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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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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Fairmont native Doris Piserchia was best known for her writing in this genre.
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