Frances Gendlin has held leadership positions in magazine and book publishing. She was Editor and Publisher of Sierra, the magazine of the Sierra Club, a worldwide environmental organization, and was the association’s Director of Public Affairs. As Executive Director of the Association of American University Presses, she represented the 100-member publishing houses to the public and fostered scholarly publishing interests. In 1997, she wrote Rome At Your Door (also published as Living & Working Abroad: Rome), a widely read guide to living in that city. In 1998, using the same format, she wrote Paris At Your Door (Living & Working Abroad: Paris).
While she was growing up, her family moved several times to different areas of the United States, each with its own characteristics and culture, climate, and cuisine. This has led her to appreciate new cultures, to wonder about their differences and similarities, and to try and understand them. All her life she has enjoyed travel and new adventures, meeting interesting people and making new friends.
After having lived in San Francisco for twenty years, Frances Gendlin now has moved to Paris. She feels fortunate to have lived in two of the most charming cities in the world. Her fictional memoir, Paris, Moi, and the Gang: A Memoir... of Sorts was published in January, 2010.