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 Origin of O Henry's "The Gift of the Magi"
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Randy Overbeck
In this episode, you'll learn--
- how O Henry wrote got some of his earliest stories from prison
- how "The Gift of the Magi" is one of the most copied Christmas stories of all time
- how O Henry's difficult circumstances led to some inspirational writings
Check out the backstories you never knew about the storytellers you love!