Jack Zipes
Jack Zipes is Professor Emeritus of German and Comparative Literature at the University of Minnesota and is very happily retired from the corporate university. He was the co-founder of New German Critique, a journal of interdisciplinary studies and was editor-in-chief of The Oxford Companion to Fairy Tales, The Norton Anthology of Children’s Literature and The Oxford Encyclopaedia of Children’s Literature. He was also the founder of Neighborhood Bridges, a storytelling/creative drama programme in the elementary schools of the Twin Cities and is the editor of the Princeton University Press series, Oddly Modern Fairy Tales.
Books by Jack Zipes
The Sorcerer's Apprentice: An Anthology of Magical Tales
Edited by Jack Zipes and illustrated by Natalie Frank
"Fairy tales are more real than we realise and more relevant for adapting to a rapidly changing world than we realise"—Jack Zipes, in our interview with him about fairy tales (as a field of study, rather than books you might read to your children...)
Interviews with Jack Zipes
The best books on Fairy Tales, recommended by Jack Zipes
Fairy tales are as relevant today as ever, says Jack Zipes, a means of communicating about serious problems such as the abandonment of children or the self-sacrifice traditionally expected of women. He picks the best books to help us reflect on the meaning and significance of fairy tales.
