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
Mary Shelley, the young mind behind the monster
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Randy Overbeck
In this episode, you'll discover--
- Mary Shelley's unique upbringing as the daughter of two famous and controversial figures
- Mary's unusual courtship and marriage to to the Romantic poet, Percy Bysshe Shelley
- the incredible popularity of a monster invented by a 17-year-old girl, long beyond the book
- the tortured childhood that led Mary to envision such a monster
Check out the backstories you never knew about the storytellers you love!