A widely published poet and essayist, Frances Mayes has written
numerous books of poetry, including Sunday in Another Country,
After Such Pleasures, The Arts of Fire, Hours, The Book of
Summer, and Ex Voto. Her work The Discovery of
Poetry: A Field Guide to Reading and Writing Poems is widely
used in college poetry classes. Formerly a professor of creative
writing at San Francisco State University, where she directed The
Poetry Center and chaired the Department of Creative Writing, Mayes
now devotes herself full time to writing and to her “At Home in
Tuscany” furniture and accessory lines. She and her husband divide
their time between North Carolina and Cortona, Italy.
Her first novel, Swan, a family saga and mystery, returns
Mayes to her childhood home of Georgia and was published in 2002. A
film version of Under the Tuscan Sun, starring Diane Lane, was
released in fall of 2003. Frances Mayes was the editor for the 2002
Best American Travel Writing. She is also the author of
the travel memoir entitled A Year in the World: Journeys of A
Passionate Traveller, which immediately debuted as a New
York Times bestseller in 2006. Working again with Steven
Rothfeld, she published SHRINES: Images of Italian
Worship, also in 2006.
Speaker
Frances Mayes
Date
Tuesday, November 27, 2007
Time
12:15 p.m.
Location
Kelleher Center, Staten Island campus
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