A Picture Gallery
Marcia's parents as newlyweds in the early 1940s, LaJolla CA
Marcia's father, Thomas Chester Dutton, USMC, somewhere in the South Pacific in 1943
Marcia, age 2, in Berkeley, CA. Definitely pre-Haight-Ashbury
Marcia and sister Susan, first bikes -- Chapman, Kansas, circa 1952
Marcia and Susan, circa 1949, Tsingtao, China. "As always, I ride the dark 'horse'"
It all begins with reading.... Marcia, age 3
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ABOUT MARCIA:
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 Marcia Talley was born in Cleveland, Ohio, but spent the first eighteen years of her life bouncing about the planet -- from Ohio to California, China, New York, Virginia, Kansas and Taiwan (sometimes more than once) -- as the eldest of five daughters of a career Marine officer.
(Marcia with mask, left.)
 "I started out in Brownies and continued to be active in scouting through high school. Here I am giving a speech -- I was scared spitless -- but I can still remember how it began: "Juliet Gordon Low was born in Savannah Georgia in 1860. Her friends called her Daisy ... ."
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Read Poster, Illinois State University Milner Library. "Marcia Talley, Former Librarian, Mystery Author. A Favorite Book: "The Game of Kings" by Dorothy Dunnett. Milner Library 2007." Photograph by Brian Braye.
More Information:
"We Are Family: Sisters in Crime, Celebrating 20 Years of Opening Doors for Women in the Mystery Field," by Marcia Talley, Mystery Scene magazine, December 2006, pp.40-43
Read about mystery writers and cats, including Marcia's cat Tommy, in Mystery Scene magazine
Marcia on the annual St. Hilda's Crime and Mystery Conference
Marcia attends the Firearms and Fiction Seminar, Las Vegas, NV
WJBC AM 1230 Podcast: Mystery Writer Talley Visits ISU (June 7, 2007)
Pantagraph.com article: Novelist Encouranges Fellow Cancer Survivors, by Greg Cima (June 7, 2007)
You can also read about Marcia in:
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Back in Ohio at last, she received her BA from Oberlin College where she met her future husband, Barry, in a campus dining hall where they were working their way through college washing dishes. After graduation, the couple moved to Baltimore, where Marcia taught 6th grade and Barry earned his doctorate in music.
Below: Marcia Dutton's and Barry Talley's senior pictures, Oberlin College. "I met Barry at Oberlin, where we were working our way through college washing dishes. Here we are, circa 1964. Don't laugh! Those black-rimmed glasses were obligatory, as I recall .... ...Ditto my hair, which I used to set using orange juice cans. If it STILL wasn't straight enough, I'd iron it."
 
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 Date: September 5, 1964. Although it looks like Barry is in a big hurry to start the honeymoon, he'd actually whacked his watch, the one I had given him as a wedding gift, on the first pew. He was checking to see if he'd damaged the crystal. He had.
In 1971 they settled in scenic, historic Annapolis when Barry was appointed Director of Musical Activities at the Naval Academy. Marcia accepted a job at St. John's College (the famous Great Books school) and earned her M.L.S. from the University of Maryland. Fifteen years followed -- the obligatory superwoman period -- working in Washington, DC and raising a family. Marcia was administrative librarian for TeleSec Library Services, then Head of Technical Services for the American Bankers Association and finally Head of Library Systems Support at the US General Accounting Office before she abandoned the grueling one-hour-each-way commute to manage the computers at the US Naval Academy Library.
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  In December 1999 she took an early retirement from Federal service to accompany her husband on a six-month sabbatical, living on a 37-foot sailboat and sailing down the Intercoastal Waterway from Annapolis to the Bahamas and back. She has two grown daughters -- Laura, an attorney in Washington, DC and Sarah, a "Navy Wife in Jakarta" -- and three grandsons.
 Marcia and Barry on sabbatical. "We sailed Troubadour from Annapolis down the Intercoastal Waterway to Ft. Lauderdale, then across the Gulf Stream to the Bahamas, where we lived aboard from January to July 2000." Below: Troubadour, Wardrick Wells, Exuma Cays, Bahamas, March 2000
 From Marcia : "This is a picture of Barry and me in New Zealand, at the Wai-o-Tapu Thermal Wonderland, sitting in front of one of the acid pools. It's truly an amazing place."
Read about their trip in: MARCIA'S BLOG:"MYSTERY-MINDED"
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The Dutton girls, from left to right: Katie, Deborah,
Alison, Susan and Marcia |
Daughter Sarah and son-in-law Jon Glass |
Daughter Laura and son-in-law David Geyer |
| Marcia's cat Tommy, part Russian Blue (she's not sure which part).
Here Tommy helps rake leaves.
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Tommy awaits the first fish barbecue of summer. |
| MEET THE GRANDKIDS ... . |
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