In the October Author Spotlight: Gene Carlisle,
author of Why Doc Holliday Left Georgia

Gene Carlisle, 56, attended the University of Georgia in the mid-60's, during which time he became familiar with the college's grand, eight-floor library. He would put that knowledge to good use thirty years later in researching the lives of Wyatt Earp and Doc Holliday. He has had four articles published in WILD WEST magazine, and has completed a book on Wyatt in Alaska, to be published in the very near future.

Gene Carlisle is a native of Macon, Georgia. His interest in Doc Holliday and Wyatt Earp had its inception in 1972 in the Lorne Greene-narrated "Showdown At The O.K. Corral", a David L. Wolper television production. For three years, Gene read extensively from then-existing books on
Holliday and the Earps, abandoning the subject in late 1974. He would return to the subject twenty years later, in July of '94, at which time he hoped to relearn the old, learn the new and, hopefully, to discover the new and contribute to the body of Holliday and Earp literature. Gene hopes that his readers will judge that he has succeeded. For an in-depth summary of Gene's Why Doc Holliday Left Georgia, please see under one of the following categories: HISTORY, MYSTERIES, NON-FICTION, OTHER (MISC.).