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
Isaac Asimov--a Father of Modern Science Fiction
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Randy Overbeck
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In this episode, you'll learn
- how Isaac as young man struggled to achieve in academics because of discrimination against Jews
- how Isaac, while working in his parents' stores, devoured pulp science fiction magazines to learn his "trade"
- how Asimov became one of the most prolific America writers, publishing and editing more 500 books
- How Asimov won about every award given out for his genres
- How Asimov, the person, was a direct contradiction of Asimov, the writer
Check out the backstories you never knew about the storytellers you love!