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NATIONAL BESTSELLEROn November 14, 1889, Nellie Bly, the crusading young female reporter for Joseph Pulitzer's World newspaper, left New York City by steamship on a quest to break the record for the fastest trip around the world. Also departing from New York that day - and heading in the opposite direction by train - was a young journalist from The Cosmopolitan magazine, Elizabeth Bisland. Each woman was determined to outdo Jules Verne's fictional hero Phileas Fogg and circle the globe in less than eighty days. The dramatic race that ensued would span twenty-eight thousand miles, captivate the nation, and change both competitors' lives forever. The two women were a study in contrasts. Nellie Bly was a scrappy, hard-driving, ambitious reporter from Pennsylvania coal country who sought out the most sensational news stories, often going undercover to expose social injustice.
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Matthew Goodman is the author of four books of nonfiction. His book "Eighty Days: Nellie Bly and Elizabeth Bisland's History-Making Race Around the World," was a New York Times bestseller and has been translated into eight languages. Matthew's writing has appeared in The American Scholar, Harvard Review, Salon, and many other publications. He lives in Brooklyn, New York, with his wife and two children.
