- One of Italy's most important novelists of the 20th century.
- Best known for "La storia", a novel about Rome during World War II with many autobiographic elements. Claudia Cardinale played the protagonist "Ida" in its movie version.
- She and her husband Alberto Moravia left Rome and fled to the area of Cassino in 1944, during World War II (because her mother was Jewish, as was Alberto's father).
- Good friends with Natalia Ginzburg and Pier Paolo Pasolini.
- Started publishing short stories for children at the age of 13.
- Aunt of Laura Morante and Giacomo Morante.
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