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
Emily Dickinson--the Poet Storyteller No One Wanted to Hear
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Randy Overbeck
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In this episode, you'll learn--
- how Emily Dickinson defied society, family and friends to become a preeminent American poet
- how Dickinson battled agoraphobia, depression and a serious eye ailment to write hundreds of poems with evocative language and inspirational themes
- how her family discovered a treasure trove of Dickinson's poems after she passed
Check out the backstories you never knew about the storytellers you love!