One of three daughters in her family, she was a bookworm from an early age, preferring to while away the hours perched on a tree branch in her backyard with Nancy Drew mysteries. Mayes was born in the early 1940s and grew up in a small Georgia town called Fitzgerald, where her father managed a family owned cotton mill. "I believe a lot of people have this dream." "I think people responded to a woman in her midlife taking a big risk and making a change," Mayes told WWD writer Luisa Zargani about the book's appeal. The account of her renovation of an abandoned villa in the Italian countryside was even made into a 2003 feature film that starred Diane Lane. Sidelightsįrances Mayes was virtually unknown as a writer until her 1996 memoir, Under the Tuscan Sun: At Home in Italy, went on to spend much of the remainder Awards:Īward from Academy of American Poets, 1975. Her memoir, Under the Tuscan Sun, was made into a film by Touchstone Pictures, 2003.
Taught English and creative writing at San Francisco State University since the late 1970s, eventually become chair of the creative writing department freelance copywriter for cookbook publishers and newspapers first collection of poetry, Sunday in Another Country, published by Heyeck Press, 1977 contributor of poetry to Atlantic, Carolina Quarterly, Gettysburg Review, and Southern Review, and of travel articles to the New York Times after 1988. Home-2022 Broderick St., San Francisco, CA 94115 and Cortona, Italy.
from University of Florida San Francisco State University, M.A., 1975. Education: Attended Randolph–Macon College earned B.A. 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).
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