The Incredible Nellie Bly: Journalist, Investigator, Feminist, and Philanthropist av Luciana Cimino

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<B><I>The Incredible Nellie Bly</I></B><B> is a visual biography of the groundbreaking investigative journalist from writer Luciana Cimino and illustrator Sergio Algozzino</B><BR/><BR/><B>Introduction by David Randal</B><BR/><BR/> 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 can