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This Fairmont native earned the Rosenthal Award and the William Faulkner Award for best first novel, A Separate Peace.
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Author W. E. Blackhurst's novel Riders of the Flood is about which industry?
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In 1938, this Pocahontas County native became the first American woman honored with the Nobel Prize for Literature.
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Porte Crayon was the pen name of what author?
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Which Davis Grubb book was shot almost entirely on site in Moundsville?
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Who served the longest time (38 years) as West Virginia's poet laureate?
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Which one of the following is NOT known primarily as an author of children's books?
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Phyllis Reynolds Naylor wrote which one of these classic books for youth.
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Fairmont native Doris Piserchia was best known for her writing in this genre.
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The Recollections of Fifty Years of West Virginia was written by which governor?
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