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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 author wrote the acclamed short story "Trilobites," originally published in 1977?
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Critic John Peale Bishop was born in this Eastern Panhandle city.
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Journalist Bruce Crawford served in all these roles except for which one?
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Who served the longest time (38 years) as West Virginia's poet laureate?
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Novelist Mittie Frances Clarke Point wrote under this pen name.
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In 1927, this Tucker County native became West Virginia's first poet laureate.
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Which one of the following recognitions did Martinsburg native Walter Dean Myers NOT receive?
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Hubert Skidmore wrote a novel about this disaster.
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This Huntington native's books include The Ballad of Trenchmouth Taggart and A Hanging at Cinder Bottom.
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