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  1. Frances and Edward Mayes currently divide their time between their homes in North Carolina and Cortona, Italy. [1] Writing. Poetry, novels and essays. Mayes has published several works of poetry: Climbing Aconcagua (1977), Sunday in Another Country (1977), After Such Pleasures (1979), The Arts of Fire (1982), Hours (1984), and Ex Voto (1995).

  2. 5 days ago · If you know the novel, Under the Tuscan Sun, you likely know of its author, the inimitable Frances Mayes.The Georgia native, who now divides her time between a home in Italy and another in Durham, has also written other international bestseller, including Bella Tuscany and A Year in the World, not to mention three beautiful illustrated cookbooks.

  3. Aug 23, 2022 · Mayes, who has homes in Italy and the U.S. with husband Edward Mayes, reflects on all the places she’s lived, from Italy and France to Mexico and the South, and what she requires to call a house a home, from the material to the ephemeral: books, friends, food, and art.

    • Random House
  4. May 19, 2019 · Those adventures are featured in the seven other books Mayes has now written about Italy, including her latest, "See You in the Piazza." Frances Mayes and correspondent Rita Braver in Cortona,...

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  5. Jul 16, 2020 · What is clear: That little book has changed the landscape of Tuscany. Broadly speaking, and in Cortona in general, where 200 people a day show up, on average, outside the gates of Bramasole, hoping for a glimpse of Mayes and her husband, the poet Edward Kleinschmidt Mayes.

    • Katherine Lagrave
    • Deputy Editor
  6. Mar 20, 2019 · Ed and Frances Mayes with Chef Giovanni Galesi, center, at Nosco cooking school in Ragusa Sicily. Mayes and her husband, Ed, explore Italy from north to south, eating, drinking and soaking up the culture in her new book, “See You in the Piazza.”

  7. Formerly a professor of creative writing at San Francisco State University, where she directed The Poetry Center and chaired the Department of Creative Writing, Mayes now devotes herself full time to writing. She and her husband divide their time between North Carolina and Tuscany.