This was a good book. I can see it being inspiring to students who want to become journalists. The format of the book was somewhat distracting, as it was not linear but employed a great deal of "flashbacks" or additional information in the middle of chapters. If those extra bits were in between chapters I think I would have felt the writing flowed better. I also wish this book focused either more on her work with the asylum or with her World War I reporting. I felt like it tried to sell a focus on the former, but turned out to be a typical short biography. I'm interested now in reading some of Nellie's published works, so there's that. I also like how the author questions what Nellie might have truly thought and felt during her more famous projects, as we will likely never know for certain.