A Place in the World: Finding the Meaning of Home

Frances Mayes is the author of four books about Tuscany. The now-classic Under the Tuscan Sun – which was a New York Times bestseller for more than two and a half years and became a Touchstone movie starring Diane Lane. It was followed by Bella Tuscany and two illustrated books, In Tuscany and Bringing Tuscany Home. She is also the author of the novel, Swan, six books of poetry, and The Discovery of Poetry. Her books have been translated into more than twenty languages.

Cassandra Campbell is an actress, director and teacher who has performed in New York at the Public Theatre, the Mint Theater and the Clurman Theatre. She is also the prolific and highly accomplished audiobook narrator of more than 700 titles to date. Winner of four Audie Awards from the Audio Publishers Association and nominated for a dozen more, she has consistently been an AudioFile Magazine Best Narrator as well as a Publisher’s Weekly Best Narrator of the Year. In 2018, she was inducted into Audible’s Narrator Hall of Fame. As an acting teacher, she spent five years as a faculty member of the Los Angeles County High School for the Arts and has performed in and directed dozens of plays at theatres across the country.