Bylines: A Photobiography of Nellie Bly (Photobiographies)

Bylines: A Photobiography of Nellie Bly (Photobiographies)
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Bylines is the latest title from award-winning biographer Sue Macy. Nellie Bly was a pioneering American journalist who lived by the belief that "Energy rightly applied and directed will accomplish anything." This credo took her from humble origins in Cochranâ€™s Mill, Pennsylvania, a town named after her father, to the most exotic cities around the globe by the time she was 25.

Nellie Bly was born Elizabeth Jane Cochran in 1864, in an age when many women led unassuming lives. Her life would make people sit up and take notice: When she wasnâ€™t making history herself, she was writing about others who did. Rarely has anyone left a more detailed record of her place in the world than Nellie Bly. In a very public life, she shared her feelings and opinions through her writing and embraced the struggles of all classes of Americans who were fighting for their rights.

The story of the two decades before and after the turn of the 20th century was her story, and she wrote with a powerful pen. Her "stunt journalism" included getting herself committed to an insane asylum for women and circling the globe in a mere 72 days. She profiled leaders from Susan B. Anthony to Eugene V. Debs, exposed corruption, and offered her readers a travelogue that expanded their horizons, even as it made the world a little smaller.

Her words live on even now, and Sue Macyâ€™s masterful biography invites young readers into Nellie Blyâ€™s America, a country at a time of great growth and social change.
Country USA
Brand National Geographic
Manufacturer National Geographic Kids
Binding Hardcover
ItemPartNumber FBA-|303859
Color Multicolor
ReleaseDate 2009-10-13
UnitCount 1
EANs 9781426305139

Country	USA
Brand	National Geographic
Manufacturer	National Geographic Kids
Binding	Hardcover
ItemPartNumber	FBA-\|303859
Color	Multicolor
ReleaseDate	2009-10-13
UnitCount	1
EANs	9781426305139

Bylines: A Photobiography of Nellie Bly (Photobiographies)

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