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
The Surprising Contradictions of Mark Twain
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Randy Overbeck
In this episode, you'll hear
- how Mark Twain used other pen names before settling on Mark Twain
- how Twain was interested in science but didn't make good choices on technology investments
- how Twain went into publishing with results he never anticipated
- how Twain draws his humor and wit for writing and speaking
Check out the backstories you never knew about the storytellers you love!