After graduating from Edmond High School in
1941, Marion G. Otto went into the Navy for four years. After
the Navy, he went to college at Oklahoma A & M and the University of New
Mexico, where he graduated in 1949 with a degree in Mechanical
Engineering. He began working for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers in
Albuquerque, New Mexico, before being transferred to Tripoli, Libya.
One job led to another and he worked for Aramco Oil in Saudi Arabia, before
returning to Tripoli with the Oasis Oil Company. His next job was with
Bechtel Corporation in San Francisco and Europe. He returned to Arabia,
where he retired in 1981, and began sailing the Caribbean for six
years. He then went to Guatemala, where he learned to paint and
write. While in Guatemala, he completed sixty-five oil paintings and
twenty-four novels. He returned to Los Angeles in December, 1999,
where he has access to a fine library and is closer to the publishing
market.