Bill Bly (William James Bly III)
is the third of four consecutive William James Blys -- his father
and no doubt his grandfather before him were subjected to the same bantering
questions about his relatives.
His other work includes the hypertext novel We Descend.
bantering questions... As it happens, his father achieved the rank of Captain in the U.S. Army, making the author the son of Captain Bly.
Nellie Bly, the "first" woman newspaper reporter, who exposed the horrors of the insane asylum at Blackwell's Island, and who went around the world in 77 days (stopping along the way to chat with Jules Verne), was born in Pittsburgh like the author, but the name she was born with was Elizabeth Cochran. The real Nelly Bly is the author's daughter, who is also a writer.
He is no relation (that he knows) to the poet Robert Bly.
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