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.

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.

Official Website of Frances Mayes, author of Under the Tuscan Sun.

Frances Mayes is a poetry, travel, memoirs, and biography fiction author who was born during the 1940s where she was brought up in Fitzgerald a small town in Georgia. She was a bookworm from very early on in her childhood and used to spend hours reading Nancy Drew mysteries in …

Born c. 1940, in Fitzgerald, GA; daughter of Garbert (a cotton mill manager) and Frankye (Davis) Mayes; married William Frank King (a computer research scientist; divorced, 1988); married Ed Kleinschmidt (a creative writing professor), 1998; children: Ashley (from first marriage).

2022年8月22日 · The writer Frances Mayes has always invited readers inside, to her life-changing home in Italy in her best-selling memoir Under the Tuscan Sun; and later to her 1800s farmhouse in Hillsborough, North Carolina, where the scent of a magnolia perfumed her bedroom.

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.

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2005年4月21日 · Frances Mayes has achieved wide recognition for two best-selling books about her life and her second home in Italy: Under the Tuscan Sun: At Home in Italy and Bella Tuscany: The Sweet Life in Italy. Mayes was born in Fitzgerald to Garbert and Frankye Davis Mayes. Her exact birth date is unknown.

2019年5月19日 · Mayes transformed the 300-year-old property, outside and in, even breaking through walls. "And when we started opening that, of course we thought the house was falling down," she...