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". 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. 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
Texas Tech University. ==Personal life and death==