Author

Nellie Bly

15 books, mostly biography, for Spoken Realms and Sordelet Audio, 2011–2026

Nellie Bly (1864–1922), the pen name of Elizabeth Jane Cochran Seaman, was an American journalist who began writing for the Pittsburgh Dispatch in 1885 and later became a pioneering investigative reporter for Joseph Pulitzer’s New York World. Her undercover exposé of the Blackwell’s Island asylum became Ten Days in a Mad-House, and her account of her record-setting journey around the world became Around the World in Seventy-Two Days. She also wrote travel journalism, social commentary, and serialized mystery and romance fiction.