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Which Morgantown native and author is known for popular novels like Flight of the Intruder and Under Siege?
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What subject was author Mary Meek Atkeson best known for?
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Uncle Abner was a popular fictional detective from Harrison County created by this author?
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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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Journalist Bruce Crawford served in all these roles except for which one?
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This author wrote two classic novels about the southern coalfields.
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Which one of the following recognitions did Martinsburg native Walter Dean Myers NOT receive?
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Phyllis Reynolds Naylor wrote which one of these classic books for youth.
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This Buckhannon native won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for her 2023 novel Night Watch, about a mother and daughter in West Virginia after the Civil War.
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Fairmont native Doris Piserchia was best known for her writing in this genre.
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