Lucy Sante

Lucy Sante was born in Verviers, Belgium, and is the author of eight books: Low Life, Evidence, The Factory of Facts, Kill All Your Darlings, Folk Photography, The Other Paris, Maybe the People Would Be the Times, and most recently, Nineteen Reservoirs. She is the recipient of a Whiting Award, Guggenheim and Cullman Fellowships, an Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, a Grammy (for album notes), and an Infinity Award for Writing from the International Center of Photography. Sante has contributed to the New York Review of Books since 1981 and to many other publications. She teaches writing and the history of photography at Bard College and lives in Ulster County, New York.