Lucy Sante is a Belgian-born American writer, critic, and artist.
12 Facts About Lucy Sante
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Lucy Sante is a frequent contributor to The New York Review of Books.
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Lucy Sante's books include Low Life: Lures and Snares of Old New York and I Heard Lucy Sante's Call My Name: A Memoir of Transition.
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Lucy Sante attended Regis High School in Manhattan, and Columbia University from 1972 to 1976.
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Lucy Sante worked in the mailroom and then as assistant to editor Barbara Epstein at The New York Review of Books.
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Lucy Sante became a regular contributor there, writing about film, art, photography, and miscellaneous cultural phenomena, as well as book reviews.
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Lucy Sante has written and edited books and written lyrics and liner notes.
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Lucy Sante co-edited O K You Mugs: Writers on Movie Actors with writer Melissa Holbrook Pierson, her former wife.
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Lucy Sante translated and edited Felix Feneon's Novels in Three Lines for New York Review Books.
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Lucy Sante served as historical consultant on Martin Scorsese's 2002 film Gangs of New York, and, with Jem Cohen, made the short film Le Bled.
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Lucy Sante has exhibited her collages at Picture Theory in Manhattan and elsewhere.
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Lucy Sante lived as a man until announcing that she was transitioning to being a woman in 2021.