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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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This author's novel Lost Highway was about a West Virginia country singer.
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Which one of the following Thomas Dunn English poems is NOT about West Virginia?
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This author is best-known for his 1935 debut novel, Waiting for Nothing, about the Great Depression.
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Which one of the following is NOT known primarily as an author of children's books?
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This Keyser High School graduate wrote the classic novel Christy about her mother's girlhood in the southern mountains.
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Novelist Mittie Frances Clarke Point wrote under this pen name.
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The mythic lumberjack Tony Beaver was created by this author.
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The Recollections of Fifty Years of West Virginia was written by which governor?
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