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
Shel Silverstein--The Playboy Who Became the Premier 20th Century Children's Poet
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Randy Overbeck
In this interesting episode you'll learn--
- how Shel Silverstein's works of poetry beat the sales records of all hardcover books
- how Shel did early work for Playboy magazine and became a favorite of Huff Heffner and several Playboy bunnies
- how Silverstein also achieved breakthrough success in the music world
- how Silverstein even conquered Broadway and TV with his storytelling abilities
Check out the backstories you never knew about the storytellers you love!