74 years old (Born on May 15, 1951)
Happy Birthday, Steven Moore! Another year older and still brilliantly dissecting novels with surgical precision. Your groundbreaking work, *The Novel: An Alternative History*, continues to enlighten readers everywhere—proving once again that literary critics can indeed be rock stars (minus the screaming fans and pyrotechnics).And let's not forget your novel *Chromos*—a finalist for the National Book Award in 1990—which remains as vibrant today as ever. Clearly, you're aging like fine literature itself: timelessly witty, endlessly insightful—and just a little bit eccentric.
Here's wishing you another chapter filled with laughter, success—and perhaps fewer footnotes this time around!