American journalist, industrialist, inventor, and charity worker
1864 CE
to 1922 CE
Elizabeth Cochran Seaman (May 5, 1864 – January 27, 1922), better known by her pen name Nellie Bly, is an American journalist, industrialist, inventor, and charity worker who is widely known for her record-breaking trip around the world in seventy-two days, in emulation of Jules Verne's fictional character Phileas Fogg, and an exposé in which she works undercover to report on a mental institution from within.
She is a pioneer in her field, and launches a new kind of investigative journalism.