She finally got some recognition when she published works drawing heavily from her Southern roots including the 1984 tome “Hours” and the 1979 published “After Such Pleasures.”ĭespite getting favorable critical reviews for her verse, Frances Mayes would remain in relative obscurity for years. During this time he rose to become the head of the university’s creative writing department. She would remain an obscure poet even with several volumes to her name. She would, later on, teach at the institution and in 1977 published “Sunday in Another Country” her first poetry collection. During the early 1960s, the couple moved to California where Mayes continued with her studies and finally got her graduate degree from the San Francisco State University. She met her husband while she was at university and would then proceed to work as a computer research scientist. In 1958, Frances left her hometown and moved to Virginia to attend the Randolph-Macon College but she would ultimately get her English undergraduate degree from the University of Florida. She was a bookworm from very early on in her childhood and used to spend hours reading Nancy Drew mysteries in her backyard.
Frances Mayes is a poetry, travel, memoirs, and biography fiction author who was born during the 1940s where she was brought up in Fitzgerald a small town in Georgia.
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