Thirty years ago, Frances Mayes abandoned her life as a university professor and poet in San Francisco and blew her savings on a two-hundred-year-old farmhouse in the rolling hills of Cortona, Tuscany ...

Travel and food writer and memoirist Frances Mayes returns to her pre-Under the Tuscan Sun days in new book, Under Magnolia. Photo by Will Garin Travel and food writer and memoirist Frances Mayes ...

Set in the author's "one-mile-square" hometown of Fitzgerald in the backwoods of Georgia, Mayes's (Every Day in Tuscany) latest memoir depicts a childhood of rich ...

It’s no secret that Frances Mayes, best known for her memoirs about Tuscany, was born and raised in the one-mile-square town of tiny Fitzgerald, in south Georgia. Glimpses of her honeyed, long-ago ...

Readers united in droves back in the '90s to savor the adventures and revelations of Frances Mayes as she restored a crumbling villa (Under The Tuscan Sun) and discovered much about life, beauty and ...

Under the Tuscan Sun started out as a memoir. Written by Frances Mayes and published in 1996, the book of the same name documented the author’s journey of renovating an abandoned Tuscan villa with her ...

On this dreary winter morning, Hillsborough author Frances Mayes already has picked out her recipe for dinner. Her copy of Joshua McFadden’s “Six Seasons: A New Way with Vegetables” is open on the ...

The lure of Tuscany can be a powerful thing to many people. Those with a wild urge to experience the country side of Italian life never forget the beauty, the hospitality and the magic of the land of ...

The Park Hotel ai Cappuccini is one of the hotels where Tauck guests will stay on the A Week In ...Tuscany and Umbria itinerary. Photo Credit: Tauck Tauck will have author Frances Mayes as a special ...

"If this wine were a man, he would not be slim, detached, and elegant. He would be a stocky powerhouse with a big laugh." This is what happens when people write about wine, who are unencumbered by the ...

In the beginning of “Women in Sunlight,” we meet three middle-aged American women. Two are widows; the other recently fled a bad marriage. All share a vague urge to start over. So on a whim and barely ...