For an author who writes under a pseudonym and refuses to reveal details of her life, Elena Ferrante is quite popular: her Neapolitan Novels, a series about two girls growing up in Naples, launched her to international attention, landing on best seller lists and prompting “rare interviews” with the author (which have grown increasingly less rare in the years since the first book came out in English) and rampant speculation about her true identity. Now, she’s on the verge of becoming even more well-known: The Neapolitan Novels will be adapted into a television series by Italian production companies Wildside and Fandango.