No genre tests the delicate trust between author and reader like memoir. It is unavoidably provocative, a case study of the fragile magic act that all creative writing entails: claiming authority to ...

NPR's Don Gonyea talks with writer Lucy Sante about her memoir, "I Heard Her Call My Name," which recounts her gender transition at age 66. The writer Lucy Sante, author of the books "Low Life," "The ...

Shelves filled with books at Lucy Sante's home in Kingston, N.Y., March 3, 2026. The visual historian and celebrated author of "Low Life" has two shows of recent artwork made from decades of gathering ...

Writer Lucy Sante has been asking herself "Who am I?" for the better part of her life. Sante, who was assigned male at birth, says changing genders was a strange and electric idea that lived in the ...

After wrestling for decades with a sense of mistaken identity, in 2021, at age 66, the acclaimed writer-editor known as Luc Sante wrote to more than two dozen friends and announced that she was ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. No genre tests the delicate trust between author and reader like memoir. It is unavoidably provocative, a case study of the ...