Elena Ferrante

Who is Elena Ferrante? This has been one of the most asked questions in the “trivial pursuit” in literary circles and among her/his/their millions of readers in Italy and worldwide. Ferrante, the author of  “My Brilliant Friend” -- the quartet of novels based in Naples telling the story of a “girl friendship”  between the 1950s and the 2000s -- has become one the most famous pseudonyms ever in the history of publishing.