Sarojini Shankar Vaidya (15 June 1933 – 3 August 2007[citation needed]) was a Marathi writer and specialist in the society and culture of 19th and 20th-century Maharashtra.
[1] Vaidya received her PhD from the University of Bombay, submitting a thesis on the Marathi writer Natyachhatakar Diwakar.
[1] Her works traversed the boundaries of the forms of criticism, the personal essay, short story, biography and autobiography.
[1] Also in 1975, she edited and completed Atmacharitra, ani charitra, the autobiography of the Marathi writer Kashibai Kanitkar.
[1] Volumes edited by Vaidya include Sanjeevani (1958), Jara javoon yeto (Selected stories of D. B. Mokashi) (1987), Vangamayeen mahatta (1990), T. S. Eliot and Modern Marathi Poetry and Literary Criticism (1990), Streejivan vatchal ani vikas (1992), and Samagra Divakar (1992).