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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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This woman became poet laureate of West Virginia in 1979.
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This McDowell County native is best known for his books about his hometown of Coalwood?
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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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Which institution of higher learning was author, poet, journalist, and educator Waitman Barbe closely associated with?
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Critic John Peale Bishop was born in this Eastern Panhandle city.
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Which poet laureate wrote a special poem for West Virginia's Sesquicentennial in 2013?
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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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This Keyser native wrote the memoir Colored People
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