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
Stephen King, More than Just the King of Horror
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Randy Overbeck
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In this episode, you will learn--
- how Stephen King went from high school English teacher to best selling author
- how Carrie, his first horror novel and bestseller, almost ended in the landfill
- how King earned the record for most literary works picked up as film and TV projects
- 5 things you probably never knew about the "King of Horror"
Check out the backstories you never knew about the storytellers you love!