Let's make this birthday one to remember.

47 years old (Born on October 24, 1977)

Happy Birthday, Gabrielle Zevin! May your day be as delightfully unusual and wonderfully imaginative as the captivating worlds you've created in "Elsewhere"—though preferably with fewer cases of teenage amnesia. Always a bonus if you can remember where you left that birthday cake.

Congrats on dazzling readers yet again—and let's not forget impressing film lovers; earning an Independent Spirit Award for your debut screenplay surely proves you're talented enough to write us all better life scripts (please?). Thank you for making timeless stories feel young forever—unlike most adult knees after celebrations involving dancing!

Here's to another fantastic year ahead!