Question: Where was the set for the winner of the WD Weatherford Award in 1998?  

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Birds of America (1998) is a collection of short stories by American writer Lorrie Moore.  The stories in this collection originally appeared in "The New Yorker", "Elle", "The New York Times", and "The Paris Review".  The story "People Like That Are the Only People Here" won an O. Henry Award in 1998.  The book became a "New York Times" bestseller, a rarity for a short story collection.  The book was included in the "New York Times Book Review" books of the year list in 1998.  Winner of the Irish Times international fiction prize.  A Village Voice book of the year (1998).  Winner of the Salon Book Award. The Unquiet Earth is Denise Giardina's third novel.  It was published in 1992 and won the W.D. Weatherford Award that year. Coalwood is an unincorporated community coal town in McDowell County, West Virginia, United States.  The coal mine in Coalwood reached its peak in the 1960s and finally shut down production on October 1, 1982.  As of the 1990 Census - the last time the town was counted separately - , the population was 900.  The town is the setting of the best-selling memoir "October Sky" by Homer Hickam and the movie based on the book. Kettle Bottom is a collection of historical poems published in 2004 by Perugia Press in Florence, Massachusetts and written by Diane Gilliam Fisher.  The collection's deep focus is on the West Virginia labor battles of 1920 and 1921, such as the Battle of Matewan and Battle of Blair Mountain.  "Kettle Bottom" was named Top Ten Poetry Book for 2005 by American Booksellers Association Book Sense, was winner of the Ohioana Library Association Poetry Book of the Year, was a finalist for the Weatherford Award of the Appalachian Studies Association, and selected for inclusion in The Pushcart Prize XXX: Best of the Small Presses. Denise Giardina is a novelist.  Her book "Storming Heaven" was a Discovery Selection of the Book-of-the-Month Club and received the 1987 W. D. Weatherford Award for the best published work about the Appalachian South. " The Unquiet Earth" received an American Book Award and the Lillian Smith Book Award for fiction.  Her 1998 novel "Saints and Villains" was awarded the Boston Book Review fiction prize and was semifinalist for the International Dublin Literary Award. Clane GAA is a Gaelic Athletic Association (GAA) club in Clane, County Kildare, Ireland, winner of 17 Kildare county senior football championships, 16 county senior hurling championships and Kildare club of the year in 1975.  Clane players are credited with bringing the handpass into Gaelic football.  Richard Cribben was regarded as one of the best players in the game in the 1890s and played on the international team that played England at Stamford Bridge in 1896.  Pa Connolly (a Cuchulainn All-Star award winner in 1963) and Tommy Carew featured on the Kildare football team of the millennium.  Martin Lynch was an All Stars Award winner in 1991.  John Finn was an All Stars Award winner in 1998. October Sky (originally published as Rocket Boys) is the first memoir in a series of three, by Homer Hickam, Jr. It is a story of growing up in a mining town, and a boy's pursuit of amateur rocketry in a coal mining town.  It won the W.D. Weatherford Award in 1998, the year of its release.  Today, it is one of the most often picked community/library reads in the United States.  It is also studied in many school systems around the world.  "October Sky" was followed by "The Coalwood Way" (2000) and "Sky of Stone" (2002). Saints at the River is a 2004 novel by American author Ron Rash.  It is Rash's second published novel.  It is the winner of the Weatherford Award for Best Novel and has been used by several schools as a summer reading assignment for their incoming freshmen, including Clemson University, Temple University, and University of Central Florida. Storming Heaven is Denise Giardina's second novel.  It was published in 1987 and won the W.D. Weatherford Award that year.  It is a fictionalized account of the labor strife in the coalfields of southern West Virginia, United States during 1920 and 1921. Fair and Tender Ladies is a novel by Lee Smith published in 1988.  It won the W.D. Weatherford Award that year.

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 The coal mine in Coalwood reached its peak in the 1960s and finally shut down production on October 1, 1982.  The town is the setting of the best-selling memoir "October Sky" by Homer Hickam and the movie based on the book.  It won the W.D. Weatherford Award in 1998, the year of its release.  "October Sky" was followed by "The Coalwood Way" (2000) and "Sky of Stone" (2002).