Frances Mayes

Frances Mayes is an American writer, poet, and essayist best known for her 1996 memoir Under the Tuscan Sun, which chronicled the purchase and renovation of a Tuscan villa and became a New York Times bestseller for over two years, later adapted into a film.[1][2] Born in Fitzgerald, Georgia, she has authored numerous poetry collections, novels like Women in Sunlight and A Great Marriage, and travel memoirs including A Year in the World and Always Italy.[2][4] She divides her time between homes in North Carolina and Tuscany with her husband, poet Ed Kleinschmidt Mayes.[4]

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