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How many women have served as West Virginia's attorney general?
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This Mercer County native wrote the song "West Virginia, My Home."
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Anne Dudley came to West Virginia after the Civil War to teach Black students in what county?
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Which Wheeling-based author wrote the novels The Hills Step Lightly, The Gods and One, The Mountain People, and Roseanna McCoy.
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This former state poet laureate published the book Gauley Mountain.
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Marshall College (now University) President James E. Morrow was the grandfather of this famous person.
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What is Eldora Bolyard Nuzum best remembered as.
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Fairmont native Doris Piserchia is noted for writing in this genre.
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What Black educator from Tucker County won an important civil rights case more than a half-century prior to Brown vs. Board of Education?
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This Clarksburg native has written extensively on the art of writing, children's books, and adult fiction, such as A Space Apart, which is largely based in West Virginia.
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