CBS News Correspondent Allen Pizzey reports on Frances Mayes, author of Under the Tuscan Sun, and her husband, Edward Kleinschmidt Mayes. Renovating a house in Tuscany certainly changed their lives.

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 ...

Frances Mayes. Crown, $26 (336p) ISBN 978-0-307-88591-3 Set in the author's "one-mile-square" hometown of Fitzgerald in the backwoods of Georgia, Mayes's (Every Day in Tuscany) latest memoir ...

In her new book "Frances Mayes Always Italy," Frances Mayes, the bestselling author of "Under The Tuscan Sun," takes on all of Italy's 20 regions.

Mayes will join Tauck guests on more than a dozen 2023 and 2024 departures when they visit the author's adopted Tuscan town of Cortona, where the principal events of her memoir and the film took ...

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 ...

This week Book Notes gives shoutouts to two renowned Georgia authors who share a publication day for two very different books, and the Marcus Jewish Community Center of Atlanta (MJCCA) announces ...

“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 ...

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 ...

A Year in the World: Journey of a Passionate Traveller Frances Mayes, . . Broadway, $26 (420pp) ISBN 978-0-7679-1005-7 ...

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 ...

I’ve been salivating over “Pasta Veloce,” the newest cookbook by my dear friend and bestselling author Frances Mayes. Perfect for when you want a delicious taste of Italy veloce, or fast ...