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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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Journalist Bruce Crawford served in all these roles except for which one?
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Porte Crayon was the pen name of what author?
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This author's novel Lost Highway was about a West Virginia country singer.
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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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Maryat Lee founded this theater group in Summers County.
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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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