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This Morris Harvey College (now University of Charleston) graduate received the prestigious Newbery Award for the children's book Missing May.
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Rebecca Harding Davis's classic short story "Life in the Iron Mills" is about factory work in this city.
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This author, who lived in Monroe County and Charleston, was one of the most significant journalists of the early 1800s.
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Uncle Abner was a popular fictional detective from Harrison County created by this author?
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Which one of the following Thomas Dunn English poems is NOT about West Virginia?
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Which Davis Grubb book was shot almost entirely on site in Moundsville?
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Who served the longest time (38 years) as West Virginia's poet laureate?
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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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The Recollections of Fifty Years of West Virginia was written by which governor?
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This Huntington native's books include The Ballad of Trenchmouth Taggart and A Hanging at Cinder Bottom.
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