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What subject was author Mary Meek Atkeson best known for?
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Which of the following was NOT written by Charleston native Mary Lee Settle?
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Which author wrote the acclamed short story "Trilobites," originally published in 1977?
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Many of this prominent writer's short stories were inspired by what he saw in Western Virginia during the Civil War.
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Poet Danske Dandridge lived much of her adult life in this Eastern Panhandle county.
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This author wrote two classic novels about the southern coalfields.
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Which poet laureate wrote a special poem for West Virginia's Sesquicentennial in 2013?
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The mythic lumberjack Tony Beaver was created by this author.
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Phyllis Reynolds Naylor wrote which one of these classic books for youth.
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Who earned the title of West Virginia poet laureate by winning a writing contest?
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