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Born in Fitzgerald, Georgia, and raised in south central Georgia, Mayes attended Randolph-Macon Woman's College in Lynchburg, Virginia, and obtained her BA from the University of Florida. Her books have been translated into more than twenty languages ( From the publisher.)įrances Mayes is an American university professor, poet, memoirist, essayist, and novelist. She is also the author of the novel, Swan, six books of poetry, The Discovery of Poetry, and her most recent, Under Magnolia: A Southern Memoir (2014). It was followed by Bella Tuscany and two illustrated books, In Tuscany and Bringing Tuscany Home. The now-classic Under the Tuscan Sun–which was a New York Times bestseller for more than two and a half years and became a Touchstone movie starring Diane Lane.

Currently-lives in Hillsborough, North Carolina, USA, andįrances Mayes is the author of several books about Tuscany.

Education-B.A., University of Florida M.A., San Francisco.

In Under the Tuscan Sun, she brings the lyrical voice of a poet, the eye of a seasoned traveler, and the discerning palate of a cook and food writer to invite readers to explore the pleasures of Italian life and to feast at her table. There were unexpected treasures at every turn: faded frescos beneath the whitewash in her dining room, a vineyard under wildly overgrown brambles in the garden, and, in the nearby hill towns, vibrant markets and delightful people. Free to go Free to return home bringing memories to lay on the hearth.Frances Mayes entered a wondrous new world when she began restoring an abandoned villa in the spectacular Tuscan countryside. There’s the visceral aspect too – the huntress who is free. You open as in childhood and – for a time – receive this world. You become a godlike creature full of choice free to visit the stately pleasure domes make love in the morning sketch a bell tower read a history of Byzantium stare for one hour at the face of Leonardo da Vinci’s Madonna dei fusi.

Even better if you speak the language you catch nuances and make more contact with people. Language becomes simply a musical background for watching bicycles zoom along a canal calling for nothing from you.

When travelling you have the delectable possibility of not understanding a word of what is said to you. What makes these people who they are Could I feel at home here No one expects you to have the stack of papers back by Tuesday or to check messages or to fertilize the geraniums or to sit full of dread in the waiting room at the protologist’s office. “When you travel you become invisible if you want.