Summary
Leta McCollough Seletzky is an essayist, memoirist and novelist from Memphis, TN. A National Endowment for the Arts 2022 Creative Writing Fellow, she is the author of The Kneeling Man: My Father’s Life as a Black Spy Who Witnessed the Assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. (Counterpoint, 2023), a Library Journal Best Book of 2023, BookPage Best Book of 2023, Black Caucus of the American Library Association Honor Book for Nonfiction and finalist for the Zora Neale Hurston/Richard Wright Foundation 2024 Legacy Award for Memoir Nonfiction. Her work has also appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Atlantic, The Washington Monthly, MLK50: Justice Through Journalism and elsewhere.
Education
- J.D., The George Washington University Law School
- B.A., Political Science and French (departmental honors in French), Northwestern University