@book{875, keywords = {journalists, Elizabeth Cochran (1864-1922), Michael Cochran (c. 1810-71), Mary Jane Kennedy Cochran (1829-1921), Erasmus Wilson (1844-1922), "Pittsburgh Dispatch"}, author = {Stephen Krensky}, title = {Nellie Bly: A Name To Be Reckoned With}, abstract = {A lightly novelized biography of journalist Elizabeth Jane Cochrane, who adopted the pen name Nellie Bly and helped to launch investigative reporting in America. While working for a Joseph Pulitzer newspaper, she gained fame for a trip around the world in 72 days—copying Jules Verne’s Phileas Fogg—as well as her expose of a New York mental institution in which she faked madness.}, year = {2003}, pages = {74 p.}, publisher = {Aladdin Paperbacks}, address = {New York}, language = {English}, }