94 years old (Born on May 27, 1930)
Happy Birthday, John Barth! May your celebration be as delightfully complex and metafictional as your novels. We hope today brings you more joy than Ebenezer Cooke found trouble in "The Sot-Weed Factor." Your brilliant storytelling continues to inspire readers to question reality—and occasionally their sanity.Here's wishing you another year filled with literary adventures, playful paradoxes, and endless footnotes of happiness. May your life remain a postmodern masterpiece—richly layered, humorously self-aware, and always open to interpretation. Cheers to the author who taught us that fiction can wink at itself while still captivating our hearts!