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Which Ritchie County native coached basketball teams to two National Invitational Tournament championships and authored a series of books about fictional sports star Chip Hilton?
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This Lewisburg native wrote the acclaimed books Town Smokes, The Wrecking Yard, and Dogs of God?
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This author who grew up in Bramwell was one of the most-respected poets of the Harlem Renaissance.
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This Wheeling resident wrote the novels Thursday April and Roseanna McCoy.
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Which one of the following Thomas Dunn English poems is NOT about West Virginia?
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Which poet laureate wrote a special poem for West Virginia's Sesquicentennial in 2013?
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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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Which one of the following books was NOT written by Harrison County native Meredith Sue Willis?
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This Keyser native wrote the memoir Colored People
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