Marcia DeSanctis
Marcia DeSanctis is the New York Times bestselling author of 100 PLACES IN FRANCE EVERY WOMAN SHOULD GO (Travelers’ Tales/Solas House) and 2022's A HARD PLACE TO LEAVE: STORIES FROM A RESTLESS LIFE. She is a former television news producer who has worked for Barbara Walters, ABC, CBS, and NBC News. She is a Contributing Editor of Travel + Leisure, and writes for Air Mail, Lonely Planet, Vogue, Marie Claire, Town & Country, O the Oprah Magazine, National Geographic Traveler, Tin House, and The New York Times. Her travel essays have been widely anthologized, including six consecutive years in Best Woman’s Travel Writing and Best Travel Writing. She is the recipient of five Lowell Thomas Awards for excellence in travel journalism, including Travel Journalist of the Year in 2012 for her essays from Rwanda, Russia, Haiti and France, and two Solas Award for Best Travel Writing. She grew up in Winchester, Massachusetts and holds a degree from Princeton University in Slavic Languages and Literature as well as a Masters in International Relations from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy. She lives in northwest Connecticut.
“Everything I had to give went to my children, and though I loved them and my husband utterly, the drudgery of the day-to-day made it seem as if not love but coffee, my Toyota and sheer logistics were what propelled me through life.”