Jack Zipes

Jack Zipes is Professor Emeritus at the University of Minnesota. In addition to his scholarly work, he is an active storyteller in public schools and has worked with children's theaters in France, Germany, Canada, and the United States. In 1997, he founded a storytelling and creative drama program, Neighborhood Bridges, in collaboration with the Children's Theatre Company of Minneapolis that is still thriving in the elementary schools of the Twin Cities. Regarded as a major translator, he has published The Complete Fairy Tales of the Brothers Grimm and numerous studies of international tales.