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Which Ritchie County native coached basketball teams to two National Invitational Tournament championships and authored a series of books about fictional sports star Chip Hilton?
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This Lewisburg native wrote the acclaimed books Town Smokes, The Wrecking Yard, and Dogs of God?
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Which of the following was NOT written by Charleston native Mary Lee Settle?
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W. E. R. Byrne wrote a class book about this river.
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Journalist Bruce Crawford served in all these roles except for which one?
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This author wrote two classic novels about the southern coalfields.
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Novelist Mittie Frances Clarke Point wrote under this pen name.
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Phyllis Reynolds Naylor wrote which one of these classic books for youth.
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Hubert Skidmore wrote a novel about this disaster.
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This Keyser native wrote the memoir Colored People
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