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
Anne Perry, Talented and Prolific Mystery and Thriller Writer
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Randy Overbeck
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In the episode, you'll learn
- How Anne Perry rose from a sickly and troubled youth to one of the most prolific writers of best-selling mysteries and thrillers
- How Anne Perry waited decades before her first novel found an agent, a publisher and an audience
- How Perry infused her novels with an unparalleled understanding of historical research
- How Perry, like your host, used her writing to broach important social issues.
Check out the backstories you never knew about the storytellers you love!