Four years later, she moved back with her mother, who had relocated to nearby Beaver, West Virginia.There had been no libraries or bookstores in Cool Ridge, and there were none in Beaver [REF].
Rylant earned a B.A. degree from Morris Harvey College (now the University of Charleston) in 1975 and a M.A. degree from Marshall University in 1976, discovering and studying English literature and greatly enjoying her years in school [REF].