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• Otis Rice

  … One of West Virginia’s most published historians, Rice was the author of _The Allegheny Frontier_, which received an Award of Merit from … and _West Virginia: The State and Its People_. He co-authored with Stephen W. Brown, _West Virginia: A History_, a …

• Cynthia Rylant

  Cynthia Rylant, author of more than 100 books for young people, was born June 6, 1954, in Hopewell, Virginia, and raised in southern West Virginia. The daughter of John T. and Leatrel Smith, Rylant uses her mother’s maiden name as her pen name. She …

• William ‘‘Coin’’ Harvey

  … Virginia. He was a school teacher, lawyer, builder, silver miner, politician, land speculator, geologist, and bestselling author. Harvey attended "Buffalo Academy":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/691 and Marshall College (now " …

• Mary Lee Settle

  … spanning four centuries. The _Quintet_ took the author more than 25 years to research and … of the Civil War. _Prisons_ (1973), the author’s personal favorite, is out of chronological … 2001, at the age of 83, the author published _I, Roger Williams_, a novel …

• Mary Meek Atkeson

  … Journal, The Penwoman_, and _The Farmer’s Wife_. Mary Meek Atkeson was well known throughout the region as educator, author, and authority on country life and agriculture. Atkeson died in Bethesda, Maryland, and was buried in Milan, Ohio. _Read several …

• Homer Hickam

  Author Homer Hadley Hickam Jr. was born February 19, 1943, in Coalwood, McDowell County. He graduated from nearby Big Creek High School in 1960 and from Virginia Polytechnic Institute in 1964 with a B.S. in industrial engineering. Hickam served in the army …

• Shenandoah River

  … flood stage. Other major floods took place in 1852, 1870, 1896, 1936, 1972, 1985, and 1996. In 1945, West Virginia author Julia Davis published _The Shenandoah_, part of the Rivers of America series. Davis told the history of the valley and the river, …

• Tony Beaver

  … figure similar to Paul Bunyan. "Margaret Prescott Montague":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/2026, native poet and author, believed Tony and Paul were one and the same, a mythical super-lumberman appearing under different names in different …

• Clair Bee

  … County":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/692. He was a successful, innovative college basketball coach and widely published author of both technical basketball books and young adult fiction. Bee spent his childhood in "Grafton":http:// …

• Agnes Smith

  Author Agnes Clifford Smith (October 18, 1906-January 11, 1994) was born in Clarksburg. She spent her childhood in Clarksburg and Charleston and finished high school at the Academy of St. Joseph in Brentwood, New York. She graduated from "Fairmont …

• William Cooper Howells

  … "Wheeling":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/1168 area as a child. He was the father of the prominent author, critic and playwright William Dean Howells. At 21, Howells began work as an apprentice typesetter at the _Virginia Statesman_, …

• W. E. Blackhurst

  Author Warren Elmer ‘‘Tweard’’ Blackhurst (October 10, 1904-October 5, 1970) was born in Arbovale, "Pocahontas County":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/1876. Educated at "Glenville State Teachers College":http://www.wvencyclopedia …

• The Blackwater Chronicle

  … adventure makes abundant use of witty literary devices and classical allusions more in the vein of 18th-century authors than the journalistic style of Kennedy’s 19th-century contemporaries. The adventurers traveled southward from the headwaters of the …

• Blaze Starr

  … forced to compete with pornographic movies, had become too raunchy for her tastes. In 1974, she wrote an autobiography with co-author Huey Perry of Huntington. In 1989 the book was filmed as _Blaze_, a movie starring Paul Newman as Earl Long and Lolita …

• P. D. Strausbaugh

  … ’s most lasting legacy is the book, "_Flora of West Virginia_":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/2208, co-authored with his former student, "Earl Core":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/1598, and published in four parts from …

• David Hunter Strother

  Artist, author, soldier, and statesman David Hunter Strother (September 26, 1816-March 8, 1888) was born in "Martinsburg":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/1552. After briefly attending Jefferson College in Canonsburg, Pennsylvania, he …

• Boyd B. Stutler

  Author and historian Boyd Blynn Stutler (July 10, 1889-February 19, 1970) was born in Gilmer County … of public printing at the state capitol. During the 1920s, he authored several publications, became managing editor of the _West Virginia Review_ magazine, …

• Festus Paul Summers

  … , and co-edited with Elizabeth Cometti _The Thirty-Fifth State: A Documentary History of West Virginia_. In 1958, Summers co-authored with Charles H. Ambler the second edition of _West Virginia: The Mountain-State_, which was already regarded as a standard …

• Pearl S. Buck

  Author Pearl Buck (June 26, 1892-March 6, 1973) was the first American woman to receive the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1938. She was born Pearl Comfort Sydenstricker in Hillsboro, Pocahontas County, in the home of her maternal grandparents. This house, …

• William Purviance Tams Jr.

  … at Tams in a house no larger than those occupied by most of his miners, his major indulgence a sizable personal library. He authored the book, _The Smokeless Coal Fields of West Virginia_, and in his later years was often interviewed on the subject of coal …

• Frank Thomas

  … owned and operated. He took up one of his planes every day the weather permitted. By the late 20th century, Thomas was an author, a poet, an artist, and a philosopher. He was an aviation legend and a colorful figure in the emergence of New River tourism …

• Milton W. Humphreys

  … served throughout the war and was paroled at Charleston, June 12, 1865. After the war he became noted as an authority on gunnery and ballistics. As a professor of Greek and ancient languages Humphreys taught at Washington and Lee University, Vanderbilt …

• Betsy Byars

  Author Betsy Byars, Newbery Medal winner and author of more than 50 books for children and youth, was born August 7, 1928, in Charlotte, North Carolina. She graduated from Queens College in Charlotte, 1950, and moved to South Carolina. Much of her most …

• Robert C. Byrd

  … unsuccessful, stand against the Bush administration’s call for a resolution authorizing war on Iraq, arguing that the requested authority was unconstitutionally broad. In 2004, Byrd pushed for the passage of an amendment that …

• W. E. R. Byrne

  … writer William Easton Randolph ‘‘Bill’’ Byrne (October 26, 1862-December 11, 1937) is best remembered as ‘‘the fishing lawyer’’ and author of "_Tale of the Elk_":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/680. He was born in Fort Defiance, Virginia. …