86 years old (Born on October 19, 1938)
Happy Birthday, Renata Adler! May your day be as delightfully unconventional and sharply insightful as your prose. From "Towards A Radical Middle" to "A Year in the Dark," you've illuminated our literary landscape with wit, wisdom, and a fearless pen.Your election into the American Academy of Arts and Letters back in 1987 was just one highlight among many—proof that brilliance never goes out of style. Here's hoping this year brings you even more reasons to smile (and perhaps another groundbreaking work or two). Keep challenging conventions; after all, who else could make radical moderation look so effortlessly cool?