The book is a memoir of Mayes buying, renovating, and living in an abandoned villa in rural Cortona in Tuscany, a region of Italy. In 1996 she published the book Under the Tuscan Sun: At Home in Italy, which was on the New York Times Best Seller list for over two years. She wrote The Discovery of Poetry, a text for readers and writers. 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).
In 1975 she earned her MA from San Francisco State University, where she became Professor of Creative Writing, director of The Poetry Center, and Chair of the Department of Creative Writing. was on the New York Times Best Seller list for over two years and was the basis for the film Under the Tuscan Sun.īorn and raised in Fitzgerald, Georgia, Mayes attended Randolph-Macon Woman's College in Lynchburg, Virginia, and obtained her BA from the University of Florida.
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