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Frances mayes
Edward Mayes (formerly Edward Kleinschmidt) is the author of five books of poetry, including Speed of Life (1999); Works & Days (1999), winner of they AWP.
Edward Kleinschmidt Mayes is an American poet and writer.

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Edward Mayes

American educator

For the American poet and writer, see Edward Kleinschmidt Mayes.

Edward Mayes (December 15, 1846 – August 9, 1917) was an American lawyer and law professor who served as the Chancellor of the University of Mississippi from 1887 to 1891.^[1]^[2]

Early life and education

He was born on December 15, 1846, in Hinds County, Mississippi, to Elizabeth Mayes and her Virginia-born attorney husband Daniel Mayes, who already had three older sons and an unmarried daughter living in their household, as well as American-born and Irish-born servants.^[3]^[1]^[2] They also owned 31 enslaved people.^[4] Mayes received a private education appropriate to his class, including at Bethany College in Virginia.

As Mississippi seceded from the Union during the American Civil War, despite his youth, Mayes volunteered to fight for the Confederacy, enlisting as a private in Company B of Hughes' Battalion of Mississippi cavalry.^[1]^[2] On December 1, 1862, he rose to the rank of corporal

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The Author

Frances Mayes – Image from her official website

Quick Facts:

Born in 1940 in Fitzgerald, Georgia
Parents: Garbert and Frankye Mayes
Spouse: William Frank King (divorced in 1988), Ed Kleinschmidt (1998-present)
One daughter (born in 1964)
Education: B.A. from the University of Florida, M.A. from San Francisco State University (1975)
Lives in San Francisco and Cortona, Italy.(Brennan, 2012)

Brief Biography

Before writing Under the Tuscan Sun, Frances Mayes was a many times published poet and essayist. She was also a frequent contributor in newspapers like the New York Times (Brennan, 2012). Mayes was also a Creative Writing professor at San Francisco State University. At SFU she was the director of The Poetry Centers and the chair of the Creative Writing Department (Brennan, 2012).

When teaching at San Francisco State, she would spend her summer breaks in Italy. After her divorce in 1988, she used her settlement money to buy her home, Bramasole, a 5-acre, 200-year old Tuscan farmhouse (Random House, 2012). Mayes wrote Under the Tuscan S

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"It never occurred to me that there would be anything in common between growing up in the [American] South and living in Italy. As it turns out, they're both rural cultures and they both have an intense sense of community, so those were big things. I think beyond that, the main thing is that there's this great, friendly, generous, welcoming spirit in Tuscany that is exactly like Georgia, where I grew up. People want to eat with you, they want to talk to you. They take time, they're not in a rush. It's a pace of life that's similar."

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