Jack Zipes is professor emeritus of German and comparative literature at the University of Minnesota. He has edited more than twenty collections of fairy tales and many books about fairy tales and children's stories. He also translates tales, including The Wounded Storyteller: The Traumatic Tales o...

Jack Zipes is professor emeritus of German and comparative literature at the University of Minnesota. He has edited more than twenty collections of fairy tales and many books about fairy tales and children's stories. He also translates tales, including The Wounded Storyteller: The Traumatic Tales of E. T. A. Hoffmann. He lives in Minneapolis, MN.