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
Judy Blume, the Groundbreaking Children's and YA author
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Randy Overbeck
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In this episode, you discover--
- How traumatic events in her early life contributed to her honest and frank approach to storytelling, even for children and young adults
- How Blume struggled to get recognized by publishers, like many emerging writers
- How her novel Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret became the breakthrough bestseller and transformed a genre
- How her novels have been the target of book censors for decades
Check out the backstories you never knew about the storytellers you love!