Let's make this birthday one to remember.

79 years old (Born on June 10, 1945)

Happy Birthday, Janet Kauffman! May your day be filled with more joy than a character finally finding the perfect metaphor. Your brilliant storytelling in "Collaborators" and insightful prose in "Places in the World a Woman Could Walk" have left readers both inspired and delightfully puzzled—wondering how you manage to weave such magic into every sentence.

Here's wishing you another year of literary triumphs, poetic adventures, and perhaps fewer writer's blocks (though we suspect even those turn into masterpieces under your pen). Keep dazzling us all; after all these years you're still proving that words truly are timeless—and so is humor. Cheers!