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Which author wrote the acclamed short story "Trilobites," originally published in 1977?
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Critic John Peale Bishop was born in this Eastern Panhandle city.
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Porte Crayon was the pen name of what author?
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This author's novel Lost Highway was about a West Virginia country singer.
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This author was the daughter of the 1924 Democratic candidate for president.
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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 Davis Grubb book was shot almost entirely on site in Moundsville?
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Which poet laureate wrote a special poem for West Virginia's Sesquicentennial in 2013?
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In 1927, this Tucker County native became West Virginia's first poet laureate.
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Hubert Skidmore wrote a novel about this disaster.
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