I Heard Her Call My Name by Lucy Sante is the 2024 memoir of the author's process of coming out and transition. Lucy Sante is a Belgian-American writer, critic, and artist. Sante was Born in Verviers, Belgium, migrated to the United States in the early 1960s. She worked in the mailroom and then as assistant to editor Barbara Epstein at The New York Review of Books. She became a regular contributor there, writing about film, art, photography, and miscellaneous cultural phenomena, as well as book reviews.
Sante has written and edited books and written lyrics and liner notes. Her books include Low Life: Lures and Snares of Old New York, a non-fiction book documenting the life and politics of lower Manhattan from the mid-19th century to the early 20th century; Evidence, the autobiographical The Factory of Facts, Walker Evans, Kill All Your Darlings: Pieces 1990-2005, Folk Photography (2009), The Other Paris (2015), Maybe the People Would Be the Times (2022), and Nineteen Reservoirs (2023). , Sante wrote lyrics for the New York City-based band The Del-Byzanteens.
After teaching in the Columbia MFA writing program, Sante taught writing and the history of photography at Bard College for 24 years before she retiring in 2023.
Sante lived as a man until announcing that she was transitioning to being a woman in 2021. She wrote on her Instagram account: "Yes, this is me, and yes, I am transitioning–I have joined the other team. Yes, I've known since at least age 11 but probably earlier and yes, I suppressed and denied it for decades.... I started...hormone replacement therapy in early May....You can call me Lucy (but I won't freak out if you misgender me) and my pronoun, thankyouverymuch, is she."
Sante has written and edited books and written lyrics and liner notes. Her books include Low Life: Lures and Snares of Old New York, a non-fiction book documenting the life and politics of lower Manhattan from the mid-19th century to the early 20th century; Evidence, the autobiographical The Factory of Facts, Walker Evans, Kill All Your Darlings: Pieces 1990-2005, Folk Photography (2009), The Other Paris (2015), Maybe the People Would Be the Times (2022), and Nineteen Reservoirs (2023). , Sante wrote lyrics for the New York City-based band The Del-Byzanteens.
After teaching in the Columbia MFA writing program, Sante taught writing and the history of photography at Bard College for 24 years before she retiring in 2023.
Sante lived as a man until announcing that she was transitioning to being a woman in 2021. She wrote on her Instagram account: "Yes, this is me, and yes, I am transitioning–I have joined the other team. Yes, I've known since at least age 11 but probably earlier and yes, I suppressed and denied it for decades.... I started...hormone replacement therapy in early May....You can call me Lucy (but I won't freak out if you misgender me) and my pronoun, thankyouverymuch, is she."
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