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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 author who grew up in Bramwell was one of the most-respected poets of the Harlem Renaissance.
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Which author wrote the acclamed short story "Trilobites," originally published in 1977?
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This Wheeling resident wrote the novels Thursday April and Roseanna McCoy.
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Many of this prominent writer's short stories were inspired by what he saw in Western Virginia during the Civil War.
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Critic John Peale Bishop was born in this Eastern Panhandle city.
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This author was the daughter of the 1924 Democratic candidate for president.
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Who served the longest time (38 years) as West Virginia's poet laureate?
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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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