Ulla E. Dydo (February 4, 1925 – September 10, 2017) was a Swiss-born writer, editor and noted Gertrude Stein scholar.
She was a professor of English at Brooklyn College]from 1958 to 1966, and then lived in Lagos, Nigeria, until 1969, doing work for the Nigerian National Museum and studying Hausa poetry.
Fluent in German, Italian, and French, Dydo was editor of Odyssey Review: A Quarterly of Modern Latin American & European Literature in English Translation from 1961 to 1963.
The years of study culminated in Dydo's major work, Gertrude Stein: The Language that Rises 1923–1934, published in 2003.
[6] Dydo frequently attended downtown poetry readings, dance, theater, and music events, and she was a generous supporter of related arts organizations.