Jack Zipes, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

Jack Zipes

American professor of German

Date of Birth: 07-Jul-1937

Place of Birth: New York City, New York, United States

Profession: writer, teacher, translator

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Cancer

Jack David Zipes (born 1937) is an American academic and folklorist who has published and lectured on the subject of fairy tales, their evolution, and their social and political role in civilizing processes.
According to Zipes, fairy tales "serve a meaningful social function, not just for compensation but for revelation: the worlds projected by the best of our fairy tales reveal the gaps between truth and falsehood in our immediate society." His arguments are avowedly based on the critical theory of the Frankfurt School and more recently theories of cultural evolution.