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Which classic movie was based on a novel by Moundsville native Davis Grubb?
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This Lewisburg native wrote the acclaimed books Town Smokes, The Wrecking Yard, and Dogs of God?
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This author who grew up in Bramwell was one of the most-respected poets of the Harlem Renaissance.
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Which institution of higher learning was author, poet, journalist, and educator Waitman Barbe closely associated with?
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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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Poet Danske Dandridge lived much of her adult life in this Eastern Panhandle county.
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This author wrote two classic novels about the southern coalfields.
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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 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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