A Memoir · By Elisabeth Hitz
The Hitz Inheritance is written by the granddaughter of the missing heiress. It follows two investigations at once: the one the newspapers ran in 1965, and the one the author began as an oral history project at New York University and turned into a decade-long family investigation, working from the archive her family kept across three continents. The manuscript is written and in final edit.
From The Opening Pages
I asked a psychic on TikTok if there was a curse on my family. He had pulled lovely cards all session. Yes, he said, there was, but only on the men, he reassured me. Made sense, all the men are dead. The women are hanging on by only God knows what.
It’s taken three generations to piece together and all of us nearly gave up, except for me. The only one left standing. A little too late because no one’s left alive to ask many more questions, but soon enough to find out about all this when I was 19 and spend a decade piecing it together while my family fell apart.
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The Author
Elisabeth Hitz is Anna Maria's granddaughter. She grew up inside the story, in the languages it happened in: she works in English, Spanish, German, French and Italian, the four languages of the archive and one more. The project began as an oral history during her undergraduate years at New York University, and she has spent the years since assembling what the family kept: the clippings, the court papers, the letters, the photographs.
She is the sole rights holder. Every fact in the book traces to a document in the archive or to the people who lived it.
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