Lucy Sante is a Belgium-born American writer, critic, and artist.
10 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.
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Lucy Sante lived as a male until announcing in September 2021 that she was transitioning to female.
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Lucy Sante attended school in New York City, first at Regis High School in Manhattan and later at Columbia University from 1972 to 1976; due to several incompletes and outstanding library fines, she did not take a degree.
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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 co-edited, with the writer, her former wife, Melissa Holbrook Pierson, O K You Mugs: Writers on Movie Actors, and translated and edited Felix Feneon's Novels in Three Lines for the New York Review Books series.
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Lucy Sante wrote the text for Take Me To The Water: Immersion Baptism In Vintage Music And Photography, a collection of historical photos of American baptismal rites, published by Dust-to-Digital in 2009.
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Lucy Sante announced on September 20,2021, that she was transitioning to female.