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This McDowell County native is best known for his books about his hometown of Coalwood?
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This author, who lived in Monroe County and Charleston, was one of the most significant journalists of the early 1800s.
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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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Author W. E. Blackhurst's novel Riders of the Flood is about which industry?
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This author was the daughter of the 1924 Democratic candidate for president.
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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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Which one of the following books was NOT written by Harrison County native Meredith Sue Willis?
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