Saralyn R. Daly | |
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Born | Saralyn Ruth Daly May 11, 1924 |
Died | August 1, 2018
Tujunga, California, U.S. | (aged 94)
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Harold Morton Landon Translation Award 1980 The Book of True Love |
Academic background | |
Alma mater | Ohio State University |
Thesis | The Historye of the Patriarks (1950) |
Doctoral advisor | Francis Utley |
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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]
Her work appears in A Shout in the Street, Beyond Baroque, Bywords, Descant, Epos, Western Humanities Review.