Marion Taylor, 1902-1959

Marion Taylor was the pseudonym of Dorothy (Sherman) Pencharz, who was born in Illinois in 1902. In 1908 her family moved to California, where her parents were divorced in 1912. In 1914, with her mother and her sister, she settled in Glendale, where she attended school until 1920. She entered a two-year teachers' program at U.C.L.A. and in 1924 resumed her education at U.C. at Berkeley, where she earned an A.B. in psychology in 1926 and an M.A. in zoology in 1929. After graduation she obtained a teaching position in psychology and biology at Marin Junior College. She married Richard Pencharz in 1933, and remained at Marin Junior College until her retirement in 1958. She died a year later.