Saralyn R. Daly

Saralyn Ruth Daly (May 11, 1924 – August 1, 2018) was an American writer and translator.

Saralyn Ruth Daly was born on May 11, 1924, in Huntington, West Virginia. She earned a Ph.D from Ohio State University in English in 1950. The title of her doctoral dissertation was "The Historye of the Patriarks".^[1] After graduation she joined the faculty at Midwestern State University (then Midwestern University) in the early 1950s.

Daly was a professor at California State University, Los Angeles from 1962 to 1988, and is now Professor Emerita.^[2] During her tenure she received the outstanding professor award in the College of Arts and Letters at California State University, Los Angeles for the 1979–1980 academic year.^[3] She was also a professor of Linguistics at Texas Tech University.^[4]

Daly lived in Tujunga, California.^[5] She died there from pneumonia and complications of leukemia, on August 1, 2018, at the age of 94.^[6]

• 1980 Harold Morton Landon Translation Award

Her work appears in A Shout in the Street, Beyond Baroque, Bywords, Descant, Epos, Western Humanities Review.

• Juan Ruiz (1978). Anthony N. Zahareas (ed.). Book of True Love. translated Saralyn R. Daly. Pennsylvania State University Press. ISBN 978-0-271-00523-2.
• In the Web (Fawcett Books, 1978)
• Love's Joy, Love's Pain (Ballantine Books, 1983)

• "'A Worn Path' Retrod". Studies in Short Fiction. 1 (2): 133–39. Winter 1964.
• Katherine Mansfield. New York: Twayne Publishers. 1965. ISBN 0-8057-1372-7.