Saralyn Ruth Daly (born May 11, 1924) is an American writer and translator.

Life

Daly was born on May 11, 1924 in

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. She earned a Ph.D from

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in English in 1950. The title of her doctoral dissertation was "The Historye of the Patriarks". After graduation she joined the faculty at

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(then Midwestern University) in the early 1950s. She was a professor at California State University, Los Angeles from 1962 to 1988, and is now

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. 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. She was also a professor of Linguistics at

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Personal

Daly lives in Tujunga, California.

Awards

* 1980 Harold Morton Landon Translation Award

Works

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

Translations

* * ''In the Web'' (Fawcett Books, 1978) * ''Love's Joy, Love's Pain'' (Ballantine Books, 1983)

Criticism

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References

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