Elena ferrante bio

Elena Ferrante is the pseudonym of the unknown Italian author of My Brilliant Friend. Very little is known about the writer, as she has purposefully kept her identity and personal history secret. In , when Ferrante published her first novel, Troubling Love, she stipulated to her publisher that she would not give interviews, readings, or any other form of publicity. She would not provide any information about herself, including her real name, as she felt that "books, once they are written, have no need of their authors" (quoted in Wood.)

Despite, or perhaps because of, this mystery, Ferrante has become one of the best-known and most celebrated contemporary novelists. She has published seven novels: three of these (Troubling Love [], The Days of Abandonment [], and The Lost Daughter []) are stand alone titles, while the other four (My Brilliant Friend [], The Story of a New Name [], Those Who Leave

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An Italian journalist claims to have found the novelist Elena Ferrante’s true identity, via financial RAPH BY JONATHAN WIGGS / THE BOSTON GLOBE VIA GETTY

The news that the true identity of the writer Elena Ferrante has, allegedly, been uncovered was published on the blog of TheNew York Review of Books at 1 A.M. on Sunday—the Internet’s witching hour, when salacious tidbits are unloaded online to greet the unsuspecting citizens of Twitter bright and early in the morning. It was met with widespread consternation from Ferrante fans. People are pissed. The sleuth, an Italian journalist named Claudio Gatti, has gone beyond the efforts of previous Ferrante truthers, who have generally tried either to compare the biographies of various Italian writers with what is known or inferred about Ferrante’s life or to match their literary style with hers, and used forensic accounting to uncover a money trail that, he believes, leads straight to the source. The process has taken him month

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Elena Ferrante

• My Brilliant Friend

• The Neapolitan Novels, Book 1
• By: Elena Ferrante
• Narrated by: Hillary Huber
• Length: 12 hrs and 38 mins
• Unabridged

My Brilliant Friend is a rich, intense, and generous-hearted story about two friends, Elena and Lila, who represent the story of a nation and the nature of friendship

• 4 out of 5 stars

• Parte Uno Dei Quattro--It's Worth it to Keep Goin'

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