Nellie McAleney Revell (March 13, 1873 — August 12, 1958) was an American journalist, novelist, publicist, vaudeville performer, screenwriter, and radio broadcaster.

She worked in Chicago, Denver,[5] Seattle, New York, and San Francisco as a young woman, building a reputation for covering nontraditional stories for women reporters at the time, such as a prize fight, the Haymarket Riot, and the Iroquois Theatre fire.

She traveled to Russia in 1895 to cover Czar Nicholas II's coronation, to England for Queen Victoria's funeral in 1901, and the murder trial of Harry K. Thaw in New York City in 1906.

[8] In 1919 Revell became ill with a "spinal trouble"[9] that kept her hospitalized in a plaster cast for several years, under the care of orthopedic surgeons Adolf Lorenz[10] and Reginald Sayre.

[13][14] Illustrators Rube Goldberg, Tad Dorgan, James Montgomery Flagg and Grace Drayton made drawings of Revell in her hospital room.

[17][18] Hospitalized and chronically ill women wrote letters to Revell, seeking her advice for keeping hope and a positive attitude.

She also wrote advice for an instructional manual, Writing for Vaudeville (1915, by Brett Page),[24] and the introduction to a memoir by Sol Rothschild, It Can Be Done: A True Story (1925).