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This Morris Harvey College (now University of Charleston) graduate received the prestigious Newbery Award for the children's book Missing May.
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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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In 1851, illustrator David Hunter Strother and his cousin Philip Pendleton Kennedy documented this famous site in a classic book.
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In 1938, this Pocahontas County native became the first American woman honored with the Nobel Prize for Literature.
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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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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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The mythic lumberjack Tony Beaver was created by this author.
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Fairmont native Doris Piserchia was best known for her writing in this genre.
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