![]() ![]() ![]() 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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