Luc Sante

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Luc Sante (1954 - )

Belgian-born, Sante teaches writing and the history of photography at Bard College in New York State.

He is author of Walker Evans (2001), The Factory of Facts (1998), Evidence (1992), and Low Life: Lures and Snares of Old New York (1991). He is co-editor of O.K. You Mugs (1999) and wrote the introductions to Maggie and the Bowery Tales by Stephen Crane (Modern Library, 2001) and Classic Crimes by William Roughead (2000), among others. He has written essays in New York Review of Books, New York Times Magazine, many others.

Sante has won the following awards: the Whiting Award; a Guggenheim Fellowship; and the Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters; and Grammy Award (for album notes).