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, a widely-read guide to living in that city. In 1998, she wrote Paris At Your Door (Living & Working Abroad: Paris). Her fictional memoir, Paris, Moi, and the Gang: A Memoir ... of Sorts, was published in 2010. CultureShock! San Francisco (2018) is her third edition of this well-received guide.