Great Stories about Great Storytellers
GREAT STORIES about GREAT STORYTELLERS shares insights into storytellers whose names you no doubt recognize—names like Edgar Allen Poe, Steven Spielberg John Grisham and Walt Disney—but reveals the backstories you probably never heard about them. The podcast features different kinds of storytellers—authors, directors, playwrights and even a poet or two. In short 10-15 minutes episodes, this fun and sometimes funny podcast features anecdotes and tidbits about storytellers, with each episode spotlighting a modern storyteller like Tom Clancy or a classical name like Charles Dickens, but in a very different light.
Great Stories about Great Storytellers
Jane Austen, the Patron Saint of Chick Lit?
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Randy Overbeck
In this episode, you'll learn
- how Jane Austen became the most copied and earliest writer of chick lit
- how, with only four novels to her name, she spawned 1000's of Regency narratives
- how Jane Austen has a following that would rival Harry Potter fans
- how Jane was denied in her own life what she coveted most
Check out the backstories you never knew about the storytellers you love!