Bylines: A Photobiography of Nellie Bly

by Sue Macy

Book Overview

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 Cochran'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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1426305133
• ISBN13: 9781426305139
• Release Date: October 2009
• Publisher: National Geographic Kids
• Length: 64 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 9.4" x 11.1"
• Age Range: 10 to 13 years
• Grade Range: Grades 5 to 8