I first encountered Elena Ferrante’s fierce, singular voice in her second novel, “The Days of Abandonment,” an unrelenting exploration of a woman whose husband has left her. In her newest novel, ...

Ever since Italian publisher Edizioni E/O’s best-selling Neapolitan novels series landed on bookstore shelves, readers everywhere have been asking: who is Elena Ferrante? For years, fans of Ferrante’s ...

In My Brilliant Friend, the first novel in Elena Ferrante’s Neapolitan series, a pubescent Elena Greco worries that she will lose her friend Lila, and finds that “that idea brought on a weary ...

With so many literary heavyweights clamoring for attention this fall, it would be both easy—and a terrible mistake—to miss one more. Italian author **Elena Ferrante’**s gutsy and compulsively readable ...

Until recently, few readers or critics on this side of the Atlantic paid much attention to “Elena Ferrante,” the presumed pseudonym of a successful Italian novelist who has kept her identity secret ...

Maggie Gyllenhaal wrote Italian author Elena Ferrante a letter — and then the actor wound up deciding to direct her first feature film. Deadline reports that Gyllenhaal will write, produce and direct ...

Who is Elena Ferrante? Well, in one sense she's the Italian author of the popular Neapolitan Novels series, but the name Elena Ferrante is a pseudonym, and her real identity has always been a bit of a ...

The elusive yet volcanic Italian author Elena Ferrante has become a kind of insiders' icon on both sides of the Atlantic. Shunning publicity, concealing her real identity, Ferrante will only say (per ...

Elena Ferrante is an unlikely literary superstar. She has sold hundreds of thousands of copies of her Neapolitan novels (the three pictured above, plus The Story of the Lost Child), which is unusual ...

The literary world erupted in a firestorm upon the potential revelation of Elena Ferrante’s previously anonymous identity. The author of the renowned Neapolitan novels about the relationship between ...

T_he following is an excerpt from an e-mail correspondence, which took place last year, between the Italian novelists Elena Ferrante and Nicola Lagioia, whose English-language début, “Ferocity,” will ...