Truman “Mac” Talley died March 15, 2013, in New York City from Parkinson’s disease. He had lived in Manhattan since graduating from Princeton.
After graduating from Deerfield, Mac enlisted in the Army and served with the 11th Armored Division during the Battle of the Bulge, earning a Purple Heart.
At Princeton he was a member of Charter Club, was on the staff of the Tiger, and broad cast on WPRB. He majored in economics.
After 15 years in publishing at the New American Library, he co-founded Weybridge & Talley in 1966. He next took his imprint, Truman Talley Books, to E.P. Dutton, where he published until his retirement in 2008. Notable authors with whom he worked were Isaac Asimov and Peter Drucker.
Mac’s first wife, Madelon Devoe, died in 1997. They had three children, Melanie, Macdonald, and Marina. In 2007 he married Susannah Osborn.
He was a member of the Anglers’ Club of New York and the Southampton Club (convenient to his summer home in East Hampton). His passion for fly-fishing took him to the Poconos every spring, and his friendship with Ernie Schwiebert *66 led to his publishing Ernie’s monumental two-volume book Trout.
Mac is remembered by his family and friends for his sociability, intellect, and complexity. The class extends its memories to Susannah and to Mac’s children.