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Frances Mayes (born March 23, 1940) is an American writer. Her 1996 memoir Under the Tuscan Sun was on the New York Times Best Seller list for over two years and was the basis for the film Under the Tuscan Sun .
Official Website of Frances Mayes, author of Under the Tuscan Sun.
Frances Mayes is New York Times bestselling author of Under the Tuscan Sun, See You in the Piazza, Always Italy, Bella Tuscany, Everyday in Tuscany, A Year in the World, In Tuscany, Bringing Tuscany Home, and The Tuscan Sun Cookbook, as well as the novels Swan and Women in Sunlight.
A widely published poet and essayist, Frances Mayes has written numerous books of poetry, including Sunday in Another Country, After Such Pleasures, The Arts of Fire, Hours, The Book of Summer, and Ex Voto. Her text The Discovery of Poetry: A Field Guide to Reading and Writing Poems is widely used in college poetry classes.
Frances Mayes has 61 books on Goodreads with 650164 ratings. Frances Mayes’s most popular book is Under the Tuscan Sun: At Home in Italy.
Mar 2, 2020 · In addition to her Tuscany memoirs, Under the Tuscan Sun and Bella Tuscany , Frances Mayes is the author of the memoirs Under Magnolia: A Southern Memoir; A Year in the World; the illustrated books In Tuscany and Bringing Tuscany Home; Swan, a novel; The Discovery of Poetry, a text for readers; and five books of poetry.
Jan 1, 1996 · Frances Mayes entered a wondrous new world when she began restoring an abandoned villa in the spectacular Tuscan countryside.
