Luc Sante

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Luc Sante is writer and critic. He was born in Verviers, Belgium in 1954, and emigrated to the United States in 1963. He has written many books, including "Low Life" (1992) and "The Factory of Facts" (1998). He attended Columbia University and since 1984 has been a full-time writer. Luc Sante is a book critic for New York magazine, a frequent contributor to the New York Review of Books (where he worked first in the mailroom and then as assistant to Barbara Epstein), and a senior contributor to the internet magazine Slate. He has written about books, films, art, photography, and miscellaneous cultural phenomenona for many other periodicals. He received a Whiting Writer's Award in 1989, a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1992-93, and, in 1997, a Literature Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. He lives in New York City with his wife, the writer Melissa Holbrook Pierson. He is writing a book about the picture postcard and prewar America. He teaches at Bard College.

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