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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. Her first book, Hidden Figures: The American Dream and the Untold Story of the Black Women Who Helped Win the Space Race (2016), is about African-American women mathematicians working at NASA who were ...
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Margot Lee was born in 1969 in Hampton, Virginia. Her father named Robert Lee III worked as a research scientist at NASA's Langley Research Center, and her mother named Margaret G. Lee was an English professor at the historically black Hampton University. Lee grew up knowing many African-American families with members who worked at NASA. She attend...
After college, she moved to New York and worked several years in investment banking, first on the Foreign Exchange trading desk at J.P. Morgan, then on Merrill Lynch's Fixed Income Capital Markets desk. She shifted to the media industry, working at a variety of startup ventures, including the HBO-funded website Volume.com. In 2005, Shetterly and he...
Hidden Figures: The Story of the African-American Women Who Helped Win the Space Race. William Morrow/HarperCollins, 2016. ISBN: 9780062363596.NASA-Langley Women's History Month 2014 Keynote: "Hidden Figures: The Female Mathematicians of NACA and NASA"Hidden Figures: The True Story of Four Black Women and the Space Race, HarperCollins, 2018. ISBN: 978-0062742469.Shetterly received a 2014 Book Grant from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation for her book Hidden Figures.This first nonfiction work went on to win the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award.Shetterly has received two grants from the Virginia Foundation for the Humanities for her work on The Human Computer Project.She also won the 2017 NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literary Work, Nonfiction.On May 12, 2018, Shetterly was awarded an honorary Doctor of Humane Letters degree from Worcester Polytechnic Institute at its 150th Commencement exercises.Hidden Figures: The True Story of Four Black Women and the Space Race by Margot Lee Shetterly features true stories about four Black women who participated in some of NASA's greatest successes. These four women are Dorothy Vaughan, Mary Jackson, Katherine Johnson, and Christine Darden.
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...
Sep 19, 2016 · In Hidden Figures: The Story of the African-American Women Who Helped Win the Space Race (public library), Margot Lee Shetterly tells the untold story of these brilliant women, once on the frontlines of our cultural leaps and since sidelined by the selective collective memory we call history.
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