Wood, James (2013年1月21日). “Women on the Verge: The Fiction of Elena Ferrante”. ザ・ニューヨーカー. Newyorker.com. 2013年1月29日閲覧。 “...a number of her letters have been collected and published. From them, we learn that she grew up in Naples, and has lived for periods outside Italy. She has a classics degree; she has referred to being a mother. One could also infer from her fiction and from her interviews that she is not now married...In addition to writing, “I study, I translate, I teach.”[中略] I believe that books, once they are written, have no need of their authors.”