Every Day in Tuscany (40 page)

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

I
N ADDITION
to her Tuscany memoirs,
Under the Tuscan Sun
and
Bella Tuscany
, Frances 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
, a text for readers; and five books of poetry. She divides her time between homes in Italy and North Carolina.

Copyright © 2010 by Frances Mayes

All rights reserved.
Published in the United States by Broadway Books, an imprint of the Crown Publishing Group, a division of Random House, Inc., New York.
www.crownpublishing.com

BROADWAY BOOKS
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Grateful acknowledgment is made to Copper Canyon Press for permission to reprint four lines from
Rising, Falling, Hovering
by C. D. Wright, copyright © 2008 by C. D. Wright. Reprinted by permission of Copper Canyon Press.

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Mayes, Frances.
Every day in Tuscany: seasons of an Italian life / Frances Mayes.—
1st ed.
1. Tuscany (Italy)—Description and travel. 2. Tuscany (Italy)—
Social life and customs. 3. Mayes, Frances. 4. Americans—Italy—
Tuscany—Biography. 5. Tuscany (Italy)—Biography. I. Title.
DG734.23.M3785 2009
945′.5—dc22    2009020898

eISBN: 978-0-307-59008-4

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