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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 Morris Harvey College (now University of Charleston) graduate received the prestigious Newbery Award for the children's book Missing May.
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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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This Wheeling resident wrote the novels Thursday April and Roseanna McCoy.
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Which institution of higher learning was author, poet, journalist, and educator Waitman Barbe closely associated with?
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Which poet laureate wrote a special poem for West Virginia's Sesquicentennial in 2013?
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Novelist Mittie Frances Clarke Point wrote under this pen name.
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The Recollections of Fifty Years of West Virginia was written by which governor?
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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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