Author, Adventure Bicyclist, Pulitzer Prize-Winning Reporter
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
Want to be riveted? Listen to Outspoken Cyclist Podcast host Diane Jenks delve into the back story of Outpedaling ‘The Big C’: My Healing Cycle Across America during a one-on-one conversation with Elizabeth. Jenks, a guru well-versed in all things two-wheeled,
A writer is a writer is a writer. Right? Not necessarily. As a longtime news reporter, I know that not all writing projects call for the same approach, voice or tone. That became abundantly clearer when I took a professional
“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.