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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 of the following was NOT a poet laureate of West Virginia?
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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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W. E. R. Byrne wrote a class book about this river.
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Poet Danske Dandridge lived much of her adult life in this Eastern Panhandle county.
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This author was the daughter of the 1924 Democratic candidate for president.
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Which one of the following Thomas Dunn English poems is NOT about West Virginia?
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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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Hubert Skidmore wrote a novel about this disaster.
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