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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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Author W. E. Blackhurst's novel Riders of the Flood is about which industry?
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Poet Danske Dandridge lived much of her adult life in this Eastern Panhandle county.
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This author was the daughter of the 1924 Democratic candidate for president.
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Which Davis Grubb book was shot almost entirely on site in Moundsville?
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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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Which one of the following recognitions did Martinsburg native Walter Dean Myers NOT receive?
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The Recollections of Fifty Years of West Virginia was written by which governor?
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