Journalist, tastemaker, television personality, world traveler, hostess, cook, Southerner, Sunday painter, fledgling gardener and outdoors lover, Frances Schultz is an enthusiast on a variety of topics–decoration and design, food and entertaining, culture and style. She is author and co-author of several books, including A House in the South, and was for six years on-air host of the award-winning cable television show Southern Living Presents. A contributing editor to House Beautiful magazine and former editor-at-large for Veranda, she contributes also to the prestigious travel website Indagare and has written for numerous others, including Town & Country and the New York Social Diary. Frances has appeared on such programs as The Today Show, CNN’s Open House, The Christopher Lowell Show, The Nate Berkus Show and Turner South’s Home Plate .

Frances’ creative spirit carries inevitably into her own home and hobbies, and fuels her interest in the arts. She entertains often and does the cooking herself. She is devoted to her Bee Cottage and garden in Long island, a weekend and summer getaway. She sketches and paints when she can, most often on her far-flung travels. She’s a reader and perpetual student. And as much as she loves home, she loves the outdoors, too–tennis, skiing, hiking, riding and shooting whenever she can.

Civic-minded and community-involved, Frances serves on the boards of the Horticultural Society of New York, Africa Foundation USA and the North Carolina Society of New York. Born and raised in the small town of Tarboro, North Carolina, Frances graduated from St. Mary’s School with honors and from the University of Virginia with distinction. She lives in Manhattan and East Hampton, with frequent visits to the Santa Ynez Valley of California .