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
L. Frank Baum, the creative genius behind the Wizard of Oz and Wicked
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Randy Overbeck
In this episode, you'll learn--
- how Baum was destined to be a writer from his teens, thanks to gifts from his father
- how Baum had feet and success in both the literary and drama world
- how his Wizard of Oz series were the top children books of the time
- how Baum, in his own writing, predicted several technology inventions
Check out the backstories you never knew about the storytellers you love!