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
Sara Paretsky--The Writer Who Broke Through
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Randy Overbeck
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In this episode, you'll learn--
- how Paretsky became one of the first female writers to break into the "hard-boiled detective" genre
- how Paretsky has used her bestselling mysteries to highlight important social justice issues
- how Paretsky became one of the co-founders of Sisters in Crime
Check out the backstories you never knew about the storytellers you love!