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

​  Not a lot of people live up to their superlatives in real life. Nellie Bly exceeded them. Every single synonym of awesome you can think of, fits her. The woman was a pioneer of free thought and speech, a brazen reporter, a bold traveler, a clever business person, a fashion maven even…audacious force majeure who marched to the beat of her own drum and make others listen up. No glass ceiling, no walls, nothing got in her way. Except maybe her own self, in the end, after an unconventional marriage and a lamentable financial decision.
    This is her biography and it presents her as such. In lovely striking art. Actually a very interestingly done art, it appears almost as watercolors but is in fact done all digitally.
   The story frames Nellie Bly as an interviewee recollecting her life’s many, many achievements for an aspiring young female reporter. Because there’s no more perfect role model than a woman who did it first and best.
    Excellent book. Not just a great read, not just a gorgeous one, but an important one in preserving the legacy of genuinely inspiring woman, a striking and inspirational success story in the age of repression. You know that thing they say about well behaved women? Well, Nellie Bly was the original disobedient woman, not only making, but writing the past, shining the light in the ugliest corners to expose and improve conditions for many disadvantaged people. Someone give this woman more than a google doodle of her own. I mean, there’s an Oscar winning biopic in the making in there, at the very least. Which’ll certainly make Bly more well known than any book can. Someone get on that now. Until then…there’s this book. And some excellent bios on Youtube.