Wanda Lloyd will be the “Meet the Author” presenter at noon on Tuesday, March 14 (doors open 11:30 a.m.), at Georgia Writers Museum in Eatonton. In a free-to-attend event, Lloyd will be presenting via Zoom, with registration available at georgiawritersmuseum.org. Copies of Lloyd’s book, Coming Full Circle: From Jim Crow to Journalism are available through the museum shop.

Kim Conrey will be Georgia Writers Museum’s “Meet the Author” presenter on Feb. 7, at 7 p.m., with doors opening at 6:30 p.m. She will be discussing Stealing Ares, her first in-a-series science-fiction book that’s already a runaway seller.

News flash from Hollywood: Oscar winner Emma Stone and Emmy-nominated writer-director Dave McCary have launched Fruit Tree, a new film/TV production company with a two-year first-look TV deal with A24, an American independent entertainment company that specializes in film and television production. The Stone-McCary partnership will produce movie projects across scripted, documentary, and unscripted formats.

John Pruitt was the Georgia Writers Museum's (GWM's) Meet the Author speaker for October, discussing his new book, Tell it True: A Novel, a fictional story loosely based around the cold-blooded murder of African American U.S.

The power of place. I’ve been thinking about this phrase a lot recently.

In 2012, the United States commemorated the Civil War sesquicentennial, the 150th anniversary of the start of the war. At the time, I was working at the Smithsonian Institute’s National Museum of American History in Washington, D.C. Needless to say, the sesquicentennial was a notable moment for our national history, and for the museum. Despite this, I never learned to properly spell “sesquicentennial,” but I did receive a grant to return to Atlanta to further study General William T. Sherman’s impact on modern Southern culture. For this reason, or because of my previous work with Joel Chandler Harris’ historic home, The Wren’s Nest, and Harris’ friendship with Henry Grady, or perhaps because I was born and raised in Atlanta, I was drawn to Dr. E. Culpepper “Cully” Clark’s latest book, The Birth of a New South: Sherman, Grady, and the Making of Atlanta.

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.

Victoria Wilcox will be the Georgia Writers Museum “Meet the Author” presenter July 19, with doors opening at 6:30 p.m. 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.

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