Author, Adventure Bicyclist, Pulitzer Prize-Winning Reporter
My tired brain was bursting with a jumble of nouns, adjectives and verbs when I rolled into tiny Walnut, Kansas on my bicycle late on a long-ago October afternoon. Per usual, I made a beeline for the library, intent on
Hey, lookie here! Next Avenue , a Twin Cities PBS news outlet, just published my essay/science piece about how decades of melanoma research helped advance the COVID-19 mRNA vaccines. Is a melanoma vaccine still on the horizon? Find out
TUNE IN ONE, TUNE IN ALL: Join Elizabeth via C-SPAN or YouTube to listen to her National Press Club Headliner Book Rap first broadcast at 2 p.m. Wednesday, May 19. Former NPC president Tammy Lytle, freelancer and former Orlando Sentinel
“What a journey—a transcontinental chronicle from a writer who is truly, fully alive!”
--environmentalist and writer Bill McKibben
Bill McKibben is just one luminary with high praise for my new book Outpedaling ‘The Big C’ My Healing Cycle Across America. I know it will inspire you, too. As an award-winning reporter, I’m accustomed to interviewing sources from all walks of life. Being brave enough to write about the 4,250-mile solo cycle I embarked on to celebrate being five years cancer-free forced me to turn the spotlight on myself. My memoir not only delves into my own intensive, 11-year odyssey with melanoma, but reveals how I rediscovered my father—who died of the same type of cancer when he was 44 and I was 15. Don’t despair. This is not a boo-hoo story. It’s a frank, unsentimental and engaging tale about human connections and why I had to unearth my past to make sense of my present.
