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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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This author, who lived in Monroe County and Charleston, was one of the most significant journalists of the early 1800s.
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Many of this prominent writer's short stories were inspired by what he saw in Western Virginia during the Civil War.
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Author W. E. Blackhurst's novel Riders of the Flood is about which industry?
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Poet Danske Dandridge lived much of her adult life in this Eastern Panhandle county.
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This author wrote two classic novels about the southern coalfields.
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Who wrote the civil rights play Great Gettin' Up Mornin', which was broadcast on CBS-TV?
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Which one of the following is NOT known primarily as an author of children's books?
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Hubert Skidmore wrote a novel about this disaster.
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What style of writing was Ruth Ann Musick best known for?
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