Family Declassified: Uncovering My Grandfather’s Journey from Spy to Children’s Book Author

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Speaker: Katherine Fennelly

St. Cloud – Why do people keep deep secrets about their lives and ancestry? Katherine Fennelly delved into the long-kept secrets of her family in the book “Family Declassified: Uncovering My Grandfather’s Journey from Spy to Children’s Book Author.” Within the book, Katherine explores the life of her maternal grandfather, a Jewish Hungarian immigrant who arrived in the United States a century ago. After spending years reviewing government records and conducting interviews, she pieced together the life of her grandfather, who hid his identity as a spy and later reinvented himself as a lauded chef and author.

Katherine is an immigration policy expert and professor emerita at the University of Minnesota. She has studied and worked in Iran, Spain and Ecuador and is a voracious reader and lifelong student of languages. For more information, you can visit her website at katherinefennelly.com.