Luc Sante

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Luc Sante is a writer and critic. He was born in Verviers, Belgium in 1954, and emigrated to the United States in the early 1960s. His books include Low Life (1991), Evidence (1992), The Factory of Facts (1998), Walker Evans (1999), and Kill All Your Darlings: Pieces 1990-2005 (2007). He co-edited, with the writer Melissa Holbrook Pierson, O. K. You Mugs: Writers on Movie Actors (1998), and translated and edited Félix Fénéon's Novels in Three Lines (2007).

He attended Regis High School in Manhattan and Columbia University and since 1984 has been a full-time writer. Luc Sante is 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 has written about books, films, art, photography, and miscellaneous cultural phenomena for many other periodicals.

He received a Whiting Writer's Award in 1989, a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1992-93, a Literature Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters in 1997, and a Grammy, for album notes, in 1998 (Sante was one of the album note writers for the 1997 re-issue of the Anthology of American Folk Music). He lives in Ulster County, New York, and teaches writing and the history of photography at Bard College.