Born in the former province of Baden, Germany, Lucille de Saint Andre grew up in Karlsruhe and came to America in 1941 during WW II. Since then she has worked as a journalist in New York, Montreal, and Toronto. At the Montreal Star in the 1950’s she was one of the first women police reporters in North America. There she worked amid almost 100 male journalists, many of whom may have felt that her place was on the "women’s page" (in those days newspapers were very much a man’s world).

In 1986 she worked for the Mexican Olympic Committee. She studied writing at New York University and her stories have been published in the United States and Canada. Lucille de Saint Andre lives in Toronto with her husband. and spends her winters in San Miguel de Allende, Mexico.