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For several years Shetterly and her husband lived and worked in Mexico, where they founded and published Inside Mexico, a magazine directed to English-speaking readers.
She lived for many years in New York and Mexico before moving to Charlottesville, Virginia, where she lives with her husband, writer Aran Shetterly. She is a graduate of the University of Virginia.
Aug 2, 2018 · In 2010, Margot Lee Shetterly, the author of Hidden Figures, was sitting in her parents’ home, catching up with her dad about some of his co-workers at NASA Langley Research Center, many of...
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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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Jul 4, 2023 · She's best known as the author of Hidden Figures, the hugely influential book turned movie about the Black women mathematicians at NASA who were responsible for some of the key calculations in the space race. But Margot wore many hats before becoming an author.
Shetterly got the idea for her book when she and her husband were visiting her parents in Hampton in 2010. Her father, Robert Lee III, mentioned that her former Sunday school teacher had been a human computer at NASA.
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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...
