Victoria Wilcox is a leading authority on Doc Holliday, the deputy with Wyatt Earp at the legendary gunfight at the O.K. Corral in Tombstone, Arizona. She will be the Georgia Writers Museum’s “Meet the Author” presenter at 7 p.m. on Tuesday, July 19, (doors open at 6:30 p.m.), discussing her new book, The World of Doc Holliday. Hors d’oeuvres and Summer Holliday “shooters” will be served at the event. Tickets are $45 per person ($80 per couple). Contact the Georgia Writers Museum for reservations or visit www.georgiawritersmuseum.org. We recently caught up with Wilcox for a short interview.

A month or so ago I returned to my office one afternoon to find a book about Doc Holliday on my desk with a note from Chip Bell requesting I read the text and write a short review of it for the Georgia Writers Museum. I suppose I was chosen for the task because of my excessively long career as a lawman. Some believe I have been around so long that I probably knew Doc Holliday personally.