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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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Growing up in Hampton, Virginia, the daughter of a scientist who worked at NASA with multiple African-American and female scientists, Shetterly saw women in STEM as the status quo. It was only after she’d grown up and moved away that she realized how unusual it was. Listening to her father and husband talking one day about Katherine Johnson and the...
Shetterly’s rigorous research started with Johnson, who was famous in her Hampton, Virginia, community for calculating the flight trajectories for Alan B. Shepard and John Glenn, the first American in space and the first to orbit the earth. “I knew the research had to be legit,” Shetterly said. “Dad and his peers took the work seriously, and I need...
While racial and gender separation in the mid-20th century created obstacles for these women, they were fortunate to have a cohort of women doing the same work in the same place at the same time. And they got to share their vocational identity outside of the workplace and in their church and community. These multiple layers of connection contribute...
A complimentary “Hidden Figures” eBook was made available to all first-year Northwestern undergraduate and graduate students along with a free 6-month membership to Amazon Prime. First -year students were invited to submit a 1,000-word essay on a theme inspired by the book. First place winner Lutgardis Ineza Ukangutse was awarded $500 and dinner wi...
Northwestern University marks the 150th anniversary of coeducation in 2019-20. To mark this historic anniversary, Northwestern will host events and programming across the University and around the world. Get to know the Northwestern women/womxn who led the struggle to open doors, creating greater access and opportunity for all who followed on the 1...
Join the conversation about the unsung heroes who helped fuel some of America’s greatest achievements in space. Upcoming events include: 1. “NASA Experience: from Sputnik to ISS to Mars”Oct. 23, at 5 p.m. Pancoe Auditorium2200 Campus Dr. on the Evanston campus A discussion of NASA’s involvement at Northwestern with Neurobiology Professor Fred Turek...
Hidden Figures: The American Dream and the Untold Story of the Black Women Who Helped Win the Space Race is a 2016 nonfiction book written by Margot Lee Shetterly. [1]
- Margot Lee Shetterly
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Sep 7, 2016 · Author Margot Lee Shetterly. “The title of this book is something of a misnomer,” Shetterly noted. “The history that came together in these pages wasn’t so much hidden, but unseen — fragments patiently biding their time in footnotes, family anecdotes and musty folders before returning to view.”.
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...
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.
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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," which was a top book of 2016 for both TIME and Publisher’s Weekly, a USA Today bestseller, and a #1 (instant) New York Times bestseller. The ...
