Lucy Sante
Lucy Sante was born in Verviers, Belgium, and now lives in the Hudson River Valley. Her books include Low Life, Evidence, The Factory of Facts, Kill All Your Darlings, The Other Paris, and Maybe the People Would Be the Times, and most recently, Nineteen Reservoirs. She has written for many periodicals, notably the New York Review of Books since 1981. Her honors include a Whiting Writer's Award, an Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, a Grammy (for album notes), an Infinity Award from the International Center of Photography, and Guggenheim and Cullman fellowships. Since 1999 she has taught writing and the history of photography at Bard College.
Sante is a superb writer who can give astonishing form to floating moods and trends that no one noticed before. —John Ashbery, Times Literary Supplement
Sante’s deep preoccupation is an outlaw history of Modernism in which avant-gardists and roustabouts sync up. With each new old thing his eye and phrasing fall on, Sante picks up a mystery to unfold, smooth out and trickily refold. He claims it, and hands it on. —Frances Richard, The Nation
At once tough in his thinking, empathic in his analysis, and liberated in his expression, Sante selects barbed details, tunes in to danger and suspense, and dispenses wry humor and sure insight. —Booklist