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Margot Lee Shetterly (born June 30, 1969) is an American nonfiction writer who has also worked in investment banking and media startups.
She is a native of Hampton, Virginia, where she knew many of the women behind the history in Hidden Figures. She lived for many years in New York and Mexico before moving to Charlottesville, Virginia, where she lives with her husband, writer Aran Shetterly.
Sep 8, 2016 · “These women were both ordinary and they were extraordinary,” says Margot Lee Shetterly. Her new book Hidden Figures shines light on the inner details of these women’s lives and...
Apr 5, 2018 · Margaret G. Lee, mother of “Hidden Figures” author Margot Lee Shetterly, reads a letter from her daughter to the North Point High School community Tuesday night.
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Former investment banker turned author who rocketed to fame after the release of her book Hidden Figures: The Story of the African-American Women Who Helped Win the Space Race. The book would inspire the film of the same name.
After graduating from University of Virginia, she worked for several years in investment banking before shifting into various media startups.
In 2013, she founded The Human Computer Project, an organization dedicated to archiving the work of women computers and mathematicians during the early days of NASA and NACA.
Her father was a research scientist at NASA-Langley Research Center and her mother was an English professor at Hampton University. She and her husband, Aran, founded the newspaper Inside Mexico.
She sold the film rights to Hidden Figures before the books release. The Oscar-nominated film starred Taraji P. Henson, Janelle Monae, and Octavia Spencer.
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Sep 25, 2016 · Shetterly, a Hampton, Va., native and daughter of a former Langley scientist, tells the story of these women in the new book Hidden Figures: The American Dream and the Untold Story of the Black...
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Oct 19, 2019 · The most inspirational lesson author Margot Lee Shetterly learned in writing her book “Hidden Figures” came from the father of NASA’s Katherine Johnson, who told his daughter, “You are no better than anyone else, and no one is better than you.”
