Early Life, Education and Career
Marcia was born April 12, 1943, in Cleveland, Ohio, the daughter of COL Thomas Chester Dutton, a career U.S. Marine Corps officer, and Lois Elizabeth Tuckerman Dutton, a registered nurse. On September 5, 1964 she married her college sweetheart, John Barry Talley, who was for thirty-six years Director of Musical Activities at the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis, Maryland. Talley has two daughters, Laura Geyer, an attorney in Washington, D.C., and Sarah Glass, a database consultant who lives near Virginia Beach, VA. She has six grandchildren.
Talley studied French at Oberlin College and obtained her B.A. 1965. She was a librarian at Bryn Mawr School from 1968-1971. She then worked as a cataloguer at St. John's College in Annapolis. She received a master's degree from the University of Maryland, College Park in 1981. Later, Talley later worked for TeleSec Library Services, the American Bankers Association, the U.S. General Accounting Office and the U.S. Naval Academy Library.
Talley is a member of the Mystery Writers of America, Sisters in Crime, Authors Guild and the Maryland Writers Association. From 2009-2010 she served as national president of Sisters in Crime, Inc.
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