Obituary: John Deely (1942-2017)
Paul Cobley
Punctum, 2(2): 131-135, 2017
DOI: 10.18680/hss.2016.0018
John Deely was born on 26 April 1942 in Chicago, Illinois and died on 6 January 2017 in Latrobe, Pennsylvania. He had staged a courageous battle against pancreatic cancer from 2015-2016, continuing to work for part of that year and coping in a fashion that he and close onlookers considered ‘miraculous’. Closest of all these onlookers was his wife, the semiotician Brooke Williams. […]