Marcus Jewish Community Center of Atlanta gears up for its annual book festival. This week Book Notes gives shoutouts to two renowned Georgia authors who share a publication day for two very different ...

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 ...

Frances Mayes earned her celebrity with three books about Tuscany, especially Under the Tuscan Sun, her inviting memoir of the house she and her husband bought and renovated in Cortona. In that book, ...

Popular author Frances Mayes has just penned a new cookbook that offers up some of Italy’s tastiest and speediest pasta recipes — “Pasta Veloce: Irresistibly Fast Recipes from Under the Tuscan Sun” ...

“Pasta’s cardinal virtue? Speed!” writes Frances Mayes in her newest book, Pasta Veloce: Irresistibly Fast Recipes from Under the Tuscan Sun. “Many tasty dinners can be prepared in the time it takes ...

Best-selling author Frances Mayes has followed up her famous book, “Under the Tuscan Sun,” with more than 20 other books, including a new cookbook. Dubbed “Pasta Veloce: Irresistibly Fast Recipes from ...

I came across Frances Mayes’ “Bella Tuscany” this spring and read just a few lines to remember how beguiled I was by her first memoir on the subject. I have heard Mayes’ prose dismissed as something ...

The dumbed-down movie version of Frances Mayes’s best-selling travel memoir Under the Tuscan Sun is a virtual case study of Hollywood’s irrepressible urge to lower the bar in the hopes of upping the ...

The novelist and memoirist, whose new book is “A Place in the World: Finding the Meaning of Home,” was disappointed by D.H. Lawrence: “He had a genius for sense of place, but his travel narratives are ...

The Italian government said on Friday it would grant citizenship to American writer Frances Mayes, author of the best-selling memoir "Under the Tuscan Sun".