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Which Morgantown native and author is known for popular novels like Flight of the Intruder and Under Siege?
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This Lewisburg native wrote the acclaimed books Town Smokes, The Wrecking Yard, and Dogs of God?
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Rebecca Harding Davis's classic short story "Life in the Iron Mills" is about factory work in this city.
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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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Which of the following was NOT a poet laureate of West Virginia?
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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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Which one of the following books did author Betsy Byars NOT write?
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Poet Danske Dandridge lived much of her adult life in this Eastern Panhandle county.
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The mythic lumberjack Tony Beaver was created by this author.
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