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Which classic movie was based on a novel by Moundsville native Davis Grubb?
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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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This McDowell County native is best known for his books about his hometown of Coalwood?
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Author W. E. Blackhurst's novel Riders of the Flood is about which industry?
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Phyllis Reynolds Naylor wrote which one of these classic books for youth.
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The Recollections of Fifty Years of West Virginia was written by which governor?
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Hubert Skidmore wrote a novel about this disaster.
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Who earned the title of West Virginia poet laureate by winning a writing contest?
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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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This author's critically acclaimed novels include In the Language of Miracles and A Pure Heart.
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