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Which Ritchie County native coached basketball teams to two National Invitational Tournament championships and authored a series of books about fictional sports star Chip Hilton?
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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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In 1851, illustrator David Hunter Strother and his cousin Philip Pendleton Kennedy documented this famous site in a classic book.
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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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Maryat Lee founded this theater group in Summers County.
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Six O'clock Mine Report was a 1989 book by this poet laureate.
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In 1927, this Tucker County native became West Virginia's first poet laureate.
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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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Hubert Skidmore wrote a novel about this disaster.
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