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This woman became poet laureate of West Virginia in 1979.
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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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Which of the following was NOT written by Charleston native Mary Lee Settle?
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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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This author's novel Lost Highway was about a West Virginia country singer.
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The mythic lumberjack Tony Beaver was created by this author.
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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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What style of writing was Ruth Ann Musick best known for?
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This author's critically acclaimed novels include In the Language of Miracles and A Pure Heart.
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