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Personal life. Margot Lee married Aran Shetterly, a writer and historian. [10] Works. 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"
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...
Sep 7, 2016 · “Hidden Figures,” as a project, is the revelation of those previously unrecognized women. It reads like a family history for distant cousins who don’t come around too often. Shetterly quilts together pieces of the stories she painstakingly gathered over the years until the tapestry was deep, engaging and warm.
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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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Oct 25, 2016 · Shetterly: Dorothy Vaughan, Mary Jackson, Katherine Johnson and Christine Darden — each of them represented a certain slice of the narrative in terms of the development of women in the workplace...
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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.
