THE KNEELING MAN

Ms. Seletzky's memoir entitled THE KNEELING MAN, My Father's Life as a Black Spy Who Witnessed the Assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr. will be presented and she will share the intimate and powerful story of the Black undercover police officer, her father, who famously knelt by the Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. during his dying moments, just after he was shot.
 

This work acheived the Library Journal Best Book of 2023, the BookPage Best Book of 2023, and the Black Caucus of the American Library Association's Honor Book for Nonfiction.

Leta McCollough Seletzky is a National Endowment for the Arts 2022 Creative Writing Fellow whose work has been featured in The Atlantic; The New York Times; The Washington Post; O, The Oprah Magazine and elsewhere. Her essay "The Man in the Picture," published in O, The Oprah Magazine, was selected as a Notable Essay in BEST AMERICAN ESSAYS 2019 and an alumna of Northwestern University and The George Washington University Law School.