Marcia Talley

Marcia Talley is a multiple award-winning American mystery author best known for the “Hannah Ives Mysteries”, a collection of short stories and two collaborative novels. Before she became a full time writer in 2000, she worked as a librarian. Talley was born in 1943 Cleveland to career US Marine Corps officer Thomas Chester and registered nurse Elizabeth Tuckerman. She went to Oberlin College from where she graduated with a bachelors in 1965, before she got a job working for the Bryn Mawr School as a librarian. Three years later she moved to Annapolis to work for St John’s College as a cataloguer. In 1981, she went to the University of Maryland for her masters and thereafter worked for the US Naval Academy Library, the US General Accounting Office, the American Bankers Association, and TeleSec Library Services.