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 - Stephen Krensky
AB - 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.
C1 - 1870s-90s
C3 - Allegheny County; Pittsburgh; Armstrong County; Burrell Twp.; Cochran’s Mills
C4 - Children’s; Biographical; Historical; Women’s
CY - New York
LA - English
M3 - Novel
N2 - 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.
PB - Aladdin Paperbacks
PP - New York
PY - 2003
RN - Stephen Krensky (1953— ) was born in Boston and graduated from Hamilton College. He is the author of more than 50 books for children.
EP - 74 p.
TI - Nellie Bly: A Name To Be Reckoned With
ER -