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
What Your Teacher Never Told You about John Steinbeck
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Randy Overbeck
IN this episode you'll learn--
- how John Steinbeck became one the most respected American authors
- how his novels have been recognized as "the Great American Novel"
- how his work is also some of the most banned books in the US
- how he had to persevere through personal struggles including being investigated by the FBI
Check out the backstories you never knew about the storytellers you love!