Victoria Wilcox will be the Georgia Writers Museum “Meet the Author” presenter July 19, with doors opening at 6:30 pm. Wilcox will be introduced by Putnam County Sheriff Howard Sills, a big fan of her work, before presenting her pictorial biography, The World of Doc Holliday: History & Historic Images. Published in 2020, the book was honored with a Will Rogers Medallion for Western Storytelling.
As the founding director of Georgia’s Holliday-Dorsey-Fife House Museum in Fayetteville (the antebellum home of the family of Doc Holliday, now a site on the National Register of Historic Places), Wilcox learned the family’s untold stories of their legendary cousin and of their connections to Georgia Writers Hall of Fame honoree Margaret Mitchell, author of Gone with the Wind. Her work with the museum led to two decades of original research, making Wilcox a nationally recognized authority on the life of Doc Holliday.
She also is the author of the documentary film In Search of Doc Holliday and the historical novel trilogy The Saga of Doc Holliday (Southern Son, Dance with the Devil, Dead Man’s Hand). Wilcox twice received Georgia Author of the Year honors and was named Best Historical Western Novelist by True West Magazine.
Wilcox has lectured across the country, appeared in local and regional media, guested on NPR affiliates, and was featured in the Fox Network series Legends & Lies: The Real West. She is a member of the Western Writers of America, Women Writing the West, the Wild West History Association, the Writer’s Guild of the Booth Museum of Western Art, and has been a featured contributor to True West Magazine.
Tickets are available at $45 per person or $80 per couple, with food and drinks included. Wilcox’s books also will be available for purchase. Contact Georgia Writers Museum for reservations or visit www.georgiawriters museum.org.
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