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Which Ritchie County native coached basketball teams to two National Invitational Tournament championships and authored a series of books about fictional sports star Chip Hilton?
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This author, who lived in Monroe County and Charleston, was one of the most significant journalists of the early 1800s.
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This author's novel Lost Highway was about a West Virginia country singer.
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Poet Danske Dandridge lived much of her adult life in this Eastern Panhandle county.
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In 1970, "Appalachia" became the first published poem by this author.
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Which poet laureate wrote a special poem for West Virginia's Sesquicentennial in 2013?
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Maryat Lee founded this theater group in Summers County.
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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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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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Hubert Skidmore wrote a novel about this disaster.
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