Happy half-century, Jasper Fforde.

Jasper Fforde, author of the rollicking Thursday Next series (most recently One of Our Thursdays Is Missing) and the nursery crime series (The Fourth Bear, etc.) turns 50 today.

Happy birthday, Jasper Fforde.

Jasper Fforde, former film cameraman and author of the Thursday Next literary detection spoofs (The Eyre Affair, etc.) and the novels featuring nursery rhyme detective Jack Spratt (The Big Over Easy, etc.), turns 48 today. Fellow writer Katie Fforde is married to a cousin of Fforde's.