page_title: List of people from West Virginia
section_title: Literature and art
hierarchical_section_title: List of people from West Virginia / Literature and art
caption_attribution_description: English: Booker T. Washington in 1903. Deutsch: Booker T. Washington im Jahr 1903.
context_page_description: This is a list of prominent people from the territory that now makes up the U.S. state of West Virginia.
context_section_description: Allen Appel, novelist
  John Peale Bishop, poet, man of letters
  Pearl S. Buck, writer and Nobel Prize winner
  Bob Carroll, historian, author
  Stephen Coonts, novelist
  Rebecca Harding Davis, short story writer
  Henry Louis Gates, Jr., author, educator, and scholar
  Denise Giardina, author
  Linda Goodman, poet, novelist, best-selling astrology writer
  Davis Grubb, novelist
  Charley Harper, artist
  Homer Hickam, writer
  Craig Johnson, novelist
  John Knowles, novelist
  William Robinson Leigh, artist
  Keith Maillard, novelist, poet
  Brooke McEldowney, cartoonist; creator of 9 Chickweed Lane comic strip
  Ehrman Syme Nadal, author
  Breece D'J Pancake, short fiction writer, author of Trilobites
  Roger Price, creator of Mad Libs and Droodles
  Jedediah Purdy, author and professor
  Mary Lee Settle, author
  Beau Smith, comic book writer
  Jean Edward Smith, biographer
  David Hunter Strother (aka Porte Crayon), artist
  Timothy Truman, writer, artist, and musician
  Jeannette Walls, author and columnist
  Booker T. Washington, political leader, educator, and author
  Tom Wilson, creator of Ziggy comic strip
caption: Booker T. Washington
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