FAQ About Nellie Bly

Nellie Bly was the pen name of Elizabeth Jane Cochran, an American journalist known for her pioneering investigative reporting and her daring adventures. She was born on May 5, 1864, in Cochran's Mills, Pennsylvania. Bly is most famous for her undercover exposé on the conditions of asylum patients at the Women's Lunatic Asylum on Blackwell's Island, as well as her record-setting circumnavigation of the globe in 72 days, inspired by Jules Verne's novel "Around the World in Eighty Days."