By Following The Money, An Italian Journalist May Have Tracked Down The Identity Of Elena Ferrante

“But after a months-long investigation it is now possible to make a powerful case for Ferrante’s true identity. Far from the daughter of a Neapolitan seamstress described in Frantumaglia, new revelations from real estate and financial records point to … a Rome-based translator whose German-born mother fled the Holocaust and later married a Neapolitan magistrate.”