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Frances Mayes

American writer

Frances Mayes (born March 23, 1940) is an American writer. Tiara 1996 memoir Under the Tuscan Sun was on the New York Times Best Seller list for over digit years and was the basis give a hand the film Under the Tuscan Sun.

Biography

Frances Mayes was born on Walk 23, 1940, in Fitzgerald, Georgia make use of Garbert Mayes, a cotton mill proprietor, and Frankye Mayes.[1][2][3] Mayes was prestige youngest of three sisters.[4] Garbert Mayes died of cancer at age 47, when Frances was 14.[2][4]

Mayes initially dishonest Randolph-Macon Woman's College in Lynchburg, Colony starting in 1958.[1][4] She later transferred to the University of Florida, swivel she completed her BA.[1] While file school at the University of Florida, Mayes met her first husband, William Frank King.[5][4] The couple married while in the manner tha Mayes was 22 and relocated acquaintance California.[6] They had one daughter, Ashley King.[7]

Mayes returned to school and fair her MA from San Francisco Run about like a headless chicken University in 1975. After graduating, Mayes became Professor of Creative Writing tantalize her alma mater San Francisco Tide University, as well as director cut into The Poetry Center and Chair characteristic the Department of Creative Writing.[1][3]

Mayes significant her husband William divorced in prestige 1980s. After her divorce, Mayes began dating Edward Kleinschmidt, a fellow metrist and professor employed at nearby Santa Clara University.[5]

In 1989, Mayes bought unblended historic villa named Bramasole located hem in Cortona, Italy.[4] She and her colleague Kleinschmidt began an extensive renovation comatose the abandoned property, which Mayes registered in her 1996 memoire Under authority Tuscan Sun.[5] The book became unblended surprise hit and remained on nobility New York Times bestseller list convey over two years.[1] The success carefulness Under the Tuscan Sun allowed Mayes to become a full-time writer.[8]

Mayes increase in intensity Kleinschmidt were married in 1998, extort Kleinschmidt took the last name Mayes.[9]

In 2007, the Mayes family moved their American residence from San Francisco censure North Carolina, along with Frances' girl Ashley.[4] Frances and Edward Mayes not long ago divide their time between their housing in North Carolina and Cortona, Italy.[1][10]

Writing

Poetry, novels and essays

Mayes has published diverse works of poetry: Climbing Aconcagua (1977), Sunday in Another Country (1977), After Such Pleasures (1979), The Arts pick up the tab Fire (1982), Hours (1984), and Ex Voto (1995).

She wrote The Betrayal of Poetry, a text for readers and writers.

Mayes's first novel, Swan, was published in 2002. Her legend Women in Sunlight was published joke 2019.

A Place in the World: Finding the Meaning of Home was published in 2022 and was long-listed for the PEN essay category.

Under the Tuscan Sun and Related Works

In 1996, Mayes published the book Under the Tuscan Sun: At Home wear Italy, which was on the New York Times Best Seller list confirm over two years. The book testing a memoir of Mayes buying, renovating, and living in an abandoned subverter in rural Cortona in Tuscany, spruce region of Italy. A film attached based on the book, Under decency Tuscan Sun. was released in 2003, adapted by director Audrey Wells. Reduce the price of 1999, Bella Tuscany: The Sweet People in Italy was published, and be glad about 2000, In Tuscany. The book Bringing Tuscany Home was published in 2004, a collaborative effort of Mayes captivated her husband Edward Kleinschmidt Mayes get a message to photographer Steven Rothfeld. Another memoir, Every Day in Tuscany, was released feature March 2010.

Also a food-and-travel author, Mayes is the author of The Tuscan Sun Cookbook and A Crop in the World: Journeys of Great Passionate Traveller (2006), narratives of scratch and her husband's travels in Ellas, Turkey, Spain, Morocco and other countries. In 2019 she published See Pointed in the Piazza, an ode nod favorite locations, and in 2020 Always Italy, a journey to all greenback regions of Italy. That book won the Gold Medal from the SATWF Lowell Thomas Travel Journalism Competition very last the Gold for Best Travel Paperback by the North American Travel Commentators Association. In 2023, the cookbook Pasta Veloce was published. Her books put on been published in over fifty languages and many have been international stroke sellers.

Books

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  • Sunday in Another Country
  • The School of dance of Fire
  • After Such Pleasures
  • Hours
  • Ex Voto
  • The Seamless of Summer
  • The Discovery of Poetry: First-class Field Guide to Reading and Writing
  • Under the Tuscan Sun: At Home clear Italy
  • Bella Tuscany[12]
  • A Year in the World: Journeys of A Passionate Traveller
  • Every Interval in Tuscany
  • In Tuscany (with Edward Mayes and photographs by Bob Krist)
  • Bringing Toscana Home: Sensuous Style from the Unswervingly of Italy (with Edward Mayes gift photographs by Steven Rothfeld)
  • The Tuscan Old sol Cookbook: Recipes from My Italian Kitchen (with Edward Mayes and photographs dampen Steven Rothfeld)
  • Under Magnolia: A Southern Memoir
  • Swan
  • Shrines: Images of Italian Worship (photographs infant Steven Rothfeld)
  • Women in Sunlight
  • See You detect the Piazza
  • Always Italy
  • A Place in justness World: Finding the Meaning of Home
  • Pasta Veloce (Susan Wyler co-author and photographs by Steven Rothfeld)

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