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Uncle Abner was a popular fictional detective from Harrison County created by this author?
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Which of the following was NOT a poet laureate of West Virginia?
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This Wheeling resident wrote the novels Thursday April and Roseanna McCoy.
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Author W. E. Blackhurst's novel Riders of the Flood is about which industry?
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This author was the daughter of the 1924 Democratic candidate for president.
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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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In 1927, this Tucker County native became West Virginia's first poet laureate.
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Phyllis Reynolds Naylor wrote which one of these classic books for youth.
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This Buckhannon native won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for her 2023 novel Night Watch, about a mother and daughter in West Virginia after the Civil War.
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