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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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"Love. Confusion. Vietnam. Parents. Children. Pregnancy. Abortion. This book has it all, and tells the story in a most interesting way. The late 1960s were not an easy time, and the people here are in the middle, trying to figure out how to live and n" Read more of this review »
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