Frances Mayes, R-MWC alumna and best-selling author of Under the Tuscan Sun, returns to the College on March 28 as the featured author for the Lynchburg Reads program. Mayes will deliver a lecture on “Writing a Life in Italy,” at 7:30 p.m. in the Smith Hall Theatre on the Randolph College campus. The event is free and open to the public. Mayes will sign copies of her books following the lecture.
Mayes, who divides her time between homes in Italy and North Carolina, recently shared with USA Today some of Italy’s little-known regional gems.
http://travel.usatoday.com/destinations/10great/story/2011/03/10-great-places-to-go-off-the-beaten-path-in-Italy/44737440/1
Under the Tuscan Sun details Mayes’ experiences renovating a dilapidated Tuscan farmhouse while living in Italy. Other memoirs that followed include Bella Tuscany, and the latest sequel, Every Day in Tuscany, published in 2010.
In addition to her Tuscany memoirs, Mayes is the author of the travel memoir A Year in the World; the illustrated books In Tuscany and Bringing Tuscany Home; Swan, a novel; The Discovery of Poetry, which is widely used in college poetry classes.
Lynchburg Reads is run through the Lynchburg Public Library System and chooses an author each year to highlight. Randolph College sponsored this year’s event.
