Frances Mayes is a San Francisco-based literature professor, literary reviewer and author, who is struggling in writing her latest book. Her outwardly perfect and stable life takes an unexpected ...

A scene from the film UNDER THE TUSCAN SUN. Chiara (Giulia Steigerwalt), Frances (Diane Lane) and Patti (Sandra Oh) celebrate Pawel's performance at the local flag-throwing festival Audrey Wells ...

and visit spots associated with the 2003 film based on Frances Mayes' book "Under the Tuscan Sun." Ducking into trattorias to avoid quick rainstorms and seeking shade on some fiercely hot days ...

Photo by ANDREAS SOLARO / AFP The Italian government said on Friday it would grant citizenship for “special merits” to American writer Frances Mayes, author of the best-selling memoir Under the Tuscan ...