The Incredible Nellie Bly

The Incredible Nellie Bly
Author :
Publisher : Abrams
Total Pages : 154
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9781647001018
ISBN-13 : 1647001013
Rating : 4/5 (013 Downloads)

Book Synopsis The Incredible Nellie Bly by : Luciana Cimino

Download or read book The Incredible Nellie Bly written by Luciana Cimino and published by Abrams. This book was released on 2021-03-02 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A visual biography of the groundbreaking investigative journalist Born in 1864, Nellie Bly was a woman who did not allow herself to be defined by the time she lived in, she rewrote the narrative and made her own way. Luciana Cimino’s meticulously researched graphic-novel biography tells Bly’s story through Miriam, a fictionalized female student at the Columbia School of Journalism in 1921. While interviewing the famous journalist, Miriam learns not only about Bly's more sensational adventures, but also about her focus on self-reliance from an early age, the scathing letter to the editor that jump-started her career as a newspaper columnist, and her dedication to the empowerment of women. In fact, in 1884, Bly was one of the few journalists who interviewed Belva Ann Lockwood, who was the first woman candidate for a presidential election—a contest that was ultimately won by Grover Cleveland—and Bly predicted correctly that women would not get the vote until 1920. Of course Bly’s most well-known exploits are also covered—how she pretended to be mad in order to get institutionalized so she could carry out an undercover investigation in an insane asylum, and Bly's greatest feat of all, her journey around the world in 72 days—alone—which was unthinkable for a woman in the late 19th century. As Miriam learns more of Bly's story, she realizes that the most important stories are necessarily the ones with the most dramatic headlines, but the ones that, in Nellie’s words, “come from a deep feeling.” This beautifully executed graphic novel paints a portrait of a woman who defied societal expectations—not only with her investigative journalism, but with her keen mind for industry, and her original inventions.


The Incredible Nellie Bly Related Books

The Incredible Nellie Bly
Language: en
Pages: 154
Authors: Luciana Cimino
Categories: Comics & Graphic Novels
Type: BOOK - Published: 2021-03-02 - Publisher: Abrams

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

A visual biography of the groundbreaking investigative journalist Born in 1864, Nellie Bly was a woman who did not allow herself to be defined by the time she l
Nellie Bly
Language: en
Pages: 666
Authors: Brooke Kroeger
Categories: Biography & Autobiography
Type: BOOK - Published: 1994 - Publisher: Crown

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Now in paperback--the acclaimed biography of Nellie Bly, the "thrilling account of a trailblazer" (Pat Morrison, Los Angeles Times Book Review). "Kroeger's biog
Eighty Days
Language: en
Pages: 481
Authors: Matthew Goodman
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2013 - Publisher: Random House Digital, Inc.

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Documents the 1889 competition between feminist journalist Nellie Bly and Cosmopolitan reporter Elizabeth Bishop to beat Jules Verne's record and each other in
Bylines
Language: en
Pages: 68
Authors: Sue Macy
Categories: Juvenile Nonfiction
Type: BOOK - Published: 2009 - Publisher: National Geographic Books

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

The life story of this daring news reporter, globetrotter, and advocate for women's rights is presented chronologically from birth to death.
Into The Madhouse
Language: en
Pages:
Authors: Nellie Bly
Categories: Biography & Autobiography
Type: BOOK - Published: 2021-01-25 - Publisher: Sordelet Ink

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

"PLUCKY NELLIE BLY!" “No young writer has ever leaped into such sudden fame in New York as Miss Nellie Bly, who did that lunatic asylum exposure for the New Y