July 30, 2007, 1:00pm
Happy Birthday, Harry
By Alana Newhouse
Dutch writer Harry Mulisch turned 80 yesterday. “I have a theory that everybody has an absolute age which he will always have,” he said in an interview. “My absolute age is 17.”
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