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This woman became poet laureate of West Virginia in 1979.
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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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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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In 1851, illustrator David Hunter Strother and his cousin Philip Pendleton Kennedy documented this famous site in a classic book.
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Poet Danske Dandridge lived much of her adult life in this Eastern Panhandle county.
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Which Davis Grubb book was shot almost entirely on site in Moundsville?
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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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Novelist Mittie Frances Clarke Point wrote under this pen name.
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In 1927, this Tucker County native became West Virginia's first poet laureate.
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