Lucy Sante

Lucy Sante (1954) is a Belgian writer, cultural historian and critic. In the early 1960s, she and her family settled in the United States. She is a frequent contributor to The New York Review of Books and Artforum. Her books include Low Life: Lures and Snares of Old New York (1991), Evidence (1992), The Factory of Facts (1998), O. K. You Mugs: Writers on Movie Actors (1998), Walker Evans (1999), Kill All Your Darlings: Pieces 1990-2005 (2007), Folk Photography (2009), Take Me To The Water: Immersion Baptism In Vintage Music And Photography (2009), The Other Paris (2015) and more recently Maybe The People Would Be The Times (2020).