Dr. Marilyn Delevante was born in Kingston, Jamaica in 1935.
In 1960 she qualified as a Medical Practitioner at Glasgow University, Scotland, returning to work in the Ministry of Health, Jamaica in 1963.
She retired in 1989.
In 2005, her first book, co-authored with her brother Anthony Alberga, Island of One People: An Account of the History of the Jews of Jamaica, was published.
In 2004, she first visited the Hunt's Bay Cemetery and became passionate about the preservation of this unique historic site, and the story of those buried there.
She is married with three children and four grandchildren and lives with her husband in Kingston, Jamaica.