TY - SER
KW - journalists
KW - Elizabeth Cochran (1864-1922)
KW - Michael Cochran (c. 1810-71)
KW - Mary Jane Kennedy Cochran (1829-1921)
KW - Erasmus Wilson (1844-1922)
KW - "Pittsburgh Dispatch"
AU - Robert Quackenbush
AB - A 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.
C1 - 1870s-90s
C3 - Allegheny County; Pittsburgh; North Side; Armstrong County; Burrell Twp.
C4 - Children’s; Biographical; Graphic; Historical; Women’s
CY - New York
LA - English
M3 - Novel
N1 - North Side is referred to as Allegheny City, as it was then known.
N2 - A 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.
PB - Simon & Schuster Books for Young People
PP - New York
PY - 1992
RN - Robert Quackenbush (1929—2021) was born in California and was the author or illustrator of more than 100 books for children.
EP - 36 p.
TI - Stop the Presses, Nellie's Got a Scoop!: A Story of Nellie Bly
ER -