| Saralyn R. Daly | |
| Birth Name: | Saralyn Ruth Daly |
| Birth Date: | 11 May 1924 |
| Birth Place: | Huntington, West Virginia, U.S. |
| Death Place: | Tujunga, California, U.S. |
| Alma Mater: | Ohio State University |
| Thesis Title: | The Historye of the Patriarks |
| Thesis Year: | 1950 |
| Thesis Url: | https://etd.ohiolink.edu/apexprod/rws_olink/r/1501/10?clear=10&p10_accession_num=osu1131116322 |
| Doctoral Advisor: | Francis Utley |
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.