It's one of the most famous Villas in Tuscany, attracting a constant stream of tourists. Bramasole (its name comes from Brama, to yearn for, and Sole, for the sun) is the house that American Frances ...

Thirty years ago, Frances Mayes abandoned her life as a university professor and poet in San Francisco and blew her savings on a two-hundred-year-old farmhouse in the rolling hills of Cortona, Tuscany ...

Writer and poet Frances Mayes lives the kind of life most of us can only dream about. Wandering through Italy, she and her husband, Ed, came upon a villa in the Tuscan town of Cortona. They bought and ...

This is the first stop in CBS News Sunday Morning's month-long look at the Middle Ages - our middle ages, that is. It's a time of life for exploring and maybe taking some new paths. We begin our ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Nicole Trilivas is a luxury travel writer and hotel expert. We worked on the book for almost two years. Writing with another ...

Set in the author's "one-mile-square" hometown of Fitzgerald in the backwoods of Georgia, Mayes's (Every Day in Tuscany) latest memoir depicts a childhood of rich ...

Riding on the success of her previous books, Mayes, who here collaborates with her husband, returns with a curious amalgam of cookbook, coffee-table book, travel guide and memoir. As in Under the ...

Under the Tuscan Sun started out as a memoir. Written by Frances Mayes and published in 1996, the book of the same name documented the author’s journey of renovating an abandoned Tuscan villa with her ...

The Park Hotel ai Cappuccini is one of the hotels where Tauck guests will stay on the A Week In ...Tuscany and Umbria itinerary. Photo Credit: Tauck Tauck will have author Frances Mayes as a special ...

On this dreary winter morning, Hillsborough author Frances Mayes already has picked out her recipe for dinner. Her copy of Joshua McFadden’s “Six Seasons: A New Way with Vegetables” is open on the ...