Saralyn R. Daly

{{Short description|American writer and translator (1924–2018)|bot=PearBOT 5}}

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| birth_name = Saralyn Ruth Daly

| birth_date = {{birth date|1924|5|11}}

| birth_place = Huntington, West Virginia, U.S.

| death_date = {{death date and age|2018|8|1|1924|5|11}}

| death_place = Tujunga, California, U.S.

| occupation = {{hlist|Professor|writer|translator}}

| awards = {{Awards|Harold Morton Landon Translation Award|year=1980|title=The Book of True Love}}

| 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

| workplaces = {{ubl|Cal State LA|Midwestern State University}}

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

Early life and career

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".{{cite web|author=Daly, Saralyn Ruth |url=https://etd.ohiolink.edu/!etd.send_file?accession=osu1131116322&disposition=inline |title=OhioLINK ETD: Daly, Saralyn |publisher=Ohiolink.edu |date= |accessdate=2012-02-10}} 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.{{cite web|url=http://catalog.calstatela.edu/NXT/gateway.dll?f=templates$fn=default.htm$3.0$vid=calstate:current |title=FAST NXT 4 |publisher=Catalog.calstatela.edu |date= |accessdate=2012-02-10}} 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.{{cite web|url=http://www.calstatela.edu/academic/al/aldistprofs.php |title=College of Arts & letters | CSULA |publisher=Calstatela.edu |date=2008-07-18 |accessdate=2012-02-10}} She was also a professor of Linguistics at Texas Tech University.{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=8jigSbQRYxYC&q=Saralyn+R.+Daly&pg=PA22 |title=The world of spirits and ancestors in the art of western sub-Saharan Africa - Elizabeth Skidmore Sasser, Thomas Judson Sasser - Google Books |isbn=9780896723467 |accessdate=2012-02-10|last1=Sasser |first1=Elizabeth Skidmore |author-link=Elizabeth Skidmore Sasser|year=1995 }}

Personal life and death

Daly lived in Tujunga, California.{{cite web|url=http://www.pw.org/content/saralyn_r_daly_1 |title=Saralyn R. Daly | Directory of Writers | Poets & Writers |publisher=Pw.org |date=2008-08-20 |accessdate=2012-02-10}} She died there from pneumonia and complications of leukemia, on August 1, 2018, at the age of 94.{{cite web |title=In Memoriam |url=https://www.calstatela.edu/emeriti/memoriam#DalySaralyn |website=Cal State LA |access-date=9 October 2023}}

Awards

Works

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

=Translations=

  • {{cite book| title=Book of True Love| publisher=Pennsylvania State University Press| author=Juan Ruiz| editor=Anthony N. Zahareas| year=1978| isbn=978-0-271-00523-2| others=translated Saralyn R. Daly }}
  • In the Web (Fawcett Books, 1978)
  • Love's Joy, Love's Pain (Ballantine Books, 1983)

=Criticism=

  • {{cite journal| title='A Worn Path' Retrod| journal=Studies in Short Fiction| volume=1| issue=2| date=Winter 1964| pages=133–39| url=http://www.enotes.com/short-story-criticism/worn-path-welty-eudora/saralyn-r-daly-essay-date-1964 }}
  • {{cite book| title=Katherine Mansfield| url=https://archive.org/details/katherinemansfie0000daly| url-access=registration| place=New York| publisher=Twayne Publishers| year=1965| isbn=0-8057-1372-7 }}

References