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Pages in category "Novels set in West Virginia" The following 33 pages are in this category, out of 33 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. 0–9.
Representative Authors of West Virginia. Charles Carpenter (April 1935). "The 'First" Books of West Virginia". West Virginia Review. 12. Innis C. Davis; Emily Johnston (1939). "Titles of Books Written by West Virginians and Those Printed in West Virginia". Biennenial Report of the State Department of Archives and History.
This category contains articles about writers associated with the U.S. state of West Virginia. This category also includes writers who resided in the region that would become West Virginia prior to its separation from Virginia in 1863.
In the fictional town of Grantville, West Virginia (modeled on the real West Virginia town of Mannington), Mike Stearns, former boxer and president of the local chapter of the United Mine Workers of America (UMWA), attends the wedding of Mike's sister when a large "ring of fire" transports a hemispherical section of land about three miles in radius measured from the town center from April 2000 ...
Ann Pancake's first novel Strange As This Weather Has Been was published by Shoemaker & Hoard/Counterpoint in October 2007. Set in southern West Virginia, the novel has been widely reviewed, and was termed by Wendell Berry "one of the bravest novels I've ever read." [10]
Novels set in West Virginia (33 P) Pages in category "Books about West Virginia" The following 3 pages are in this category, out of 3 total.
The Virginian: A Horseman of the Plains is a 1902 novel by American author Owen Wister (1860–1938), set in Wyoming Territory during the 1880s. Detailing the life of a cowboy on a cattle ranch, the novel was a landmark in the evolution of the western genre, as distinguished from earlier short stories and pulp dime novels.
The Maddens resided near Shiloh, West Virginia, where Naylor found the abused dog in 1989, so she decided to name the book's dog Shiloh. Because the Maddens' post office address is in Friendly, West Virginia, Naylor chose the town as her book's setting. [17] Trudy and Frank Madden adopted the abused dog Naylor had seen.