Life offers you a thousand chances. All you have to do is take one.
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| Birth: | 4th April, 1940 |
| Nationality: | American |
| Profession: | Memoirist, Novelist, Poet, Professor |
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Frances Mayes was born in Fitzgerald, Georgia, USA. She is an American memoirist, novelist, poet, and professor. She obtained her BA from the University of Florida. In 1975 she earned her MA from San Francisco State University, where she eventually became Professor of Creative Writing. She has published several works of poetry: Climbing Aconcagua, Sunday in Another Country, After Such Pleasures, The Arts of Fire, Hours, and Ex Voto. In 1996 she published the book Under the Tuscan Sun: At Home in Italy. Mayes's first novel, Swan, was published in 2002. A new memoir Every Day in Tuscany was released in March 2010.
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