Nellie Bly

A memorial to Nellie Bly awaits construction on Roosevelt Island, NYC. This was the site of her first journalistic adventure. Back then called Blackwell ...

I was working on a short-story follow-up to What Girls Are Good For, my 2018 novel following the early career of groundbreaking undercover reporter Nellie Bly. My new story took place immediately…

Nellie Bly, pseudonym of Elizabeth Cochrane, also spelled Cochran, (born May 5, 1864, Cochran’s Mills, Pennsylvania, U.S.—died January 27, 1922, New York, New York), American journalist whose around-the-world race against a fictional record brought her world renown. Elizabeth Cochran (she later added a final “e” to Cochran) received scant formal schooling. She began her career in 1885 in her native Pennsylvania as a reporter for the Pittsburgh Dispatch, to which she had sent an angry letter…

Nellie Bly, the late-nineteenth-century newspaper reporter, was, at one time, on the tip of every literate and tabloid-loving person’s tongue.

Nellie Bly was possibly the coolest traveler of all time.

Nellie Bly, reporter by Nina Brown Baker, 1961, Scholastic Book Services edition,

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A behind-the-scene look at the life of Nellie Bly.

An excerpt from Nellie Bly: Daredevil, Reporter, Feminist by Brooke Kroeger details how the author unearthed some of the obscured facts about Bly's life.

As a young man, French painter Claude Monet (1840-1926) abandoned the traditional approach to painting – standing in a studio, copying the old masters – in favor of painting scenes in t…