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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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Which author wrote the acclamed short story "Trilobites," originally published in 1977?
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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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Critic John Peale Bishop was born in this Eastern Panhandle city.
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Which one of the following books did author Betsy Byars NOT write?
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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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Which one of the following books was NOT written by Harrison County native Meredith Sue Willis?
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