Frances Mayes

Frances Mayes. Writer: Under the Tuscan Sun. Frances Mayes grew up in Fitzgerald, Georgia, and attended Randolph-Macon Woman's College and the University of Florida. She is a poet, essayist and professor of creative writing at San Francisco State University. She relocated to Cortona, Italy after she bought and renovated a rundown Tuscan farmhouse, Bramasole (literally, "yearning for the sun"), in 1990. Her memoir, `Under the Tuscan Sun: At Home in...