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Diane Josefowicz is a writer, editor, historian, and passionate amateur tap dancer. Her latest novel, The Great Houses of Pill Hill will be published in May 2026 by Soho Press. She is the author of three previous works of fiction: Ready, Set, Oh, a novel published by Flexible Press; L'Air du Temps (1985), a novella published in 2024 by Regal House; and Guardians & Saints: Stories, published in October 2025 by Cornerstone Press. With Jed Z. Buchwald, she has written two histories of French Egyptology: The Riddle of the Rosetta (2020) and The Zodiac of Paris (2010), both published by Princeton University Press. ...more

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	The Great Houses of Pill Hill 2.51 avg rating — 179 ratings — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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	The Riddle of the Rosetta: How an English Polymath and a French Polyglot Discovered the Meaning of Egyptian Hieroglyphs by Jed Z. Buchwald, Diane Josefowicz (Goodreads Author) (Contributor) 3.26 avg rating — 57 ratings — published 2020 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Zodiac of Paris: How an Improbable Controversy over an Ancient Egyptian Artifact Provoked a Modern Debate between Religion and Science by Jed Z. Buchwald, Diane Josefowicz (Goodreads Author) 4.03 avg rating — 29 ratings — published 2010 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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