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THE NELLIE BLY COLLECTION

Collected and curated for the first time in The Nellie Bly Collection are the articles written by pioneering journalist Nellie Bly across her historic career.

Volume I: The Books

In additional to her reporting, Nellie Bly also published four books. For the first time, they are presented in a single volume: “Ten Days In A Mad-House”; “Around The World In 72 Days”; “Six Months In Mexico”; and Nellie Bly’s novel “The Mystery of Central Park.”

Volume II: The Pittsburg Dispatch

Nellie Bly’s historic journalism career began in her hometown of Pittsburg, PA. This volume contains over 80 articles from her time writing for The Pittsburg Dispatch, many of which haven’t seen the light of day since they were published over 130 years ago.

Volume III: The World

(1887-1888)

Nellie Bly comes alive writing for Joseph Pulitzer at The World in New York. Beginning with her infamous insane asylum story to her trip around the world to exposing crooked politicians and baby-brokers to interviews with the nation’s First Ladies, Nellie becomes more than a reporter… she is a sensation!

Volume IV: The World

(1889-1890)

Nellie By continues her historic run at The World with articles on the plight of women in society, the first ever interview with Helen Keller, a stab at some fiction and a recounting of her historic trip around the world!

NELLIE BLY: Daredevil, Reporter, Feminist

By Brooke Kroeger

A fully documented biography of Nellie Bly that integrates a wealth of previously unknown information with a reporter’s zeal for hard facts. Not only and inspiring tale, but the story of an age when American women were asserting their right and need to shape history itself.

EIGHTY DAYS: Nellie Bly and Elizabeth Bisland’s History-Making Trip Around The Word

By Matthew Goodman

The story of Nellie Bly’s quest to travelaround the world faster than Jules Verne’s Phileas Fogg AND Elizabeth Bisland who embarked on the same journey, at the same time, in the opposite direction! Part historical biography, part adventure novel.

BYLINES: A Photobiography of Nellie Bly

By Sue Macy

Bylines is the latest title from award-winning author Sue Macy. Her masterful biography invites young readers into Nellie Bly’s America, a country at a time of great growth and social change. Forward by Linda Ellerbee.

GETTING THE REAL STORY: Nellie Bly & Ida B. Wells

By Sue Davidson

Part of the “Women Who Dared” series, Sue Davidson’s book pairs two journalists whose tireless work and writings broke barriers and advanced the cause of civil rights and equality in America.

                                                  NELLIE BLY HISTORICAL FICTION

History, mystery and murder accompany Nellie Bly as she travels around the world in tales of adventure. Author Carol McCleary cleverly takes elements from the life of Nellie Bly and uses them as the basis for a series of novels.  Paired with historical figures such as Jules Verne, Oscar Wilde, Arthur Conan Doyle and H.G. Wells, Nellie investigates the secrets behind English moors, Aztec pyramids, magicians in the Orient and a killer loose on the streets of Paris.