Born Elizabeth Jane Cochran, Nellie Bly was one of America's first and greatest journalists. It became a national phenomenon in the late 19th century, with a board game based on its adventures and merchandising inspired by the clothes she wore. She rose to fame for being the first reporter on the ground and for writing articles that no one at the time believed that a woman could or should write, such as the report where she denounced the treatment of patients at a women's asylum and the travel diary about how she broke the record for unaccompanied round-the-world.
This volume, the only printed and edited compilation of Bly's best-known works: Ten Days in an Asylum, Six Months in Mexico and Around the World in Seventy-Two Days, as well as many lesser-known pieces that capture the breadth of his career, from his ferocious opinion articles to his remarkable World War I report.
