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Writer, researcher, and entrepreneur Margot Lee Shetterly is the author of Hidden Figures: The American Dream and the Untold Story of the Black Women Mathematicians Who Helped Win the Space Race (William Morrow/HarperCollins).
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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.
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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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Katherine Johnson, who recently passed away at age 101, has become a household name thanks to writer and researcher Margot Lee Shetterly. Johnson, Dorothy Vaughan, and Mary Jackson were African American mathematicians, at that time called “human computers,” who worked for NASA during the space race. Though their contributions were ...
I'm also the founder of The Human Computer Project, an endeavor that is recovering the names and accomplishments of all of the women who worked as computers, mathematicians, scientists and engineers at the NACA and NASA from the 1930s through the 1980s.
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.
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Margot Lee Shetterly used to be an investment banker, a business owner and a content marketing and editorial consultant. Now she's the author of the number-one New York Times bestseller "Hidden Figures," which chronicles the challenges and contributions of the Black women who worked at NASA from the 1930s through the 1960s.
