For 37 years The Walt Disney Company has bestowed one of its highest honors – the Disney Legends Award – to 304 contributors to the corporation over its 100-year history, ranging from animators and Imagineers to singers and executives. In Disney Legends: Makers of Magic, Volume 1, author Jamie Hecker highlights many of these notable names. On this episode of Notably Disney, Jamie joins host Brett Nachman to discuss his Disney journey, writing for Celebrations Magazine, and writing two Disney-focused books.
Check out more about Jamie's written work via JamieHeckerWriter.com, where you can learn more about and Disney Legends: Makers of Magic, Volume 1 and order on Amazon. You can also gather more information about Walt Goes to Washington: Finding Disney in DC, his other book, also available on Amazon.
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