Quote of the day
There'll always be working people in my poems because I grew up with them, and I am a poet of memory.
Jack Zipes

Born: July 7, 1937 (age 88)
Bio: Jack David Zipes is an American retired Professor of German at the University of Minnesota, who has published and lectured on the subject of fairy tales, their evolution, and their social and political role in civilizing processes.
Known for:
- Breaking the magic spell (1979)
- The Oxford Companion to Fairy Tales (2000)
- Fairy Tale as Myth/Myth as Fairy Tale (1983)







