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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 author, who lived in Monroe County and Charleston, was one of the most significant journalists of the early 1800s.
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Which author wrote the acclamed short story "Trilobites," originally published in 1977?
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Journalist Bruce Crawford served in all these roles except for which one?
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This author is best-known for his 1935 debut novel, Waiting for Nothing, about the Great Depression.
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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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Six O'clock Mine Report was a 1989 book by this poet laureate.
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The Recollections of Fifty Years of West Virginia was written by which governor?
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Which one of the following books was NOT written by Harrison County native Meredith Sue Willis?
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