Incidents in the Life of Leslie Harper

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.Otto, Marion is the author of 'Incidents in the Life of Leslie Harper', published 2004 under ISBN 9781932657142 and ISBN 1932657142.