Iron John: A Book About Men

Iron John

Author	Robert Bly
Language	English
Subject	Iron John
Publisher	Addison-Wesley
Publication date	1990
Media type	Print
Pages	268
ISBN	978-0-201-51720-0

Iron John: A Book About Men is a book by American poet Robert Bly, and an exegesis of Iron John, a parable belonging to the Grimms' Fairy Tales (1812) by German folklorists Brothers Grimm about a boy maturing into adulthood with help of the wild man.

Published in 1990 by Addison-Wesley, the book is Bly's best-known work,^[1] having spent 62 weeks on The New York Times Best Seller list and went on to become a pioneering work in the mythopoetic men's movement.^[2]