Career
Klotman is the author of Another Manitoba Gone: The Black Runner in Contemporary Afro-American Literature (1977). Frame by Frame: A Black Filmography (1979). And Struggles for Representation: African American Documentary Film and Video (1999).
Klotman was born in Galveston, Texas in 1924.
Her father was a door-to-door salesman. Klotman is Jewish. Klotman earned her Bachelor"s, Master"s and Doctorate degrees in English from Case Western Reserve University and began teaching at Indiana University, Bloomington in 1970.
Klotman founded the journal Black Camera and helped to amass a large archive on black cinema at Indiana University which now includes thousands of films, photographs, oral histories and memorabilia.
