Leta Seletzky
The Kneeling Man: My Father's Life as a Black Spy
Leta McCollough Seletzky is a National Endowment for the Arts 2022 Creative Writing Fellow whose essays have appeared in The Atlantic, The Washington Post, The New York Times, O: The Oprah Magazine and elsewhere. A former litigator, she is the author of the father-daughter memoir The Kneeling Man: My Father’s Life as a Black Spy Who Witnessed the Assassination of Martin Luther King Jr., a Library Journal Best Book of 2023 and BookPage Best Nonfiction Book of 2023.