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  1. Feb 7, 2017 · The diversity of Nasa’s workforce in 1940s Virginia is uncovered in a new book by Margot Lee Shetterly. She recalls how a visit to her home town led to a revelation

  2. 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
    • 2016
  3. 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...

  4. 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 ...

  5. 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.

  6. Feb 28, 2017 · Feb 28, 2017 7:12 AM. Hidden Figures: the true story behind the women who changed Nasa's place in the Space Race. WIRED speaks to Nasa's chief historian Bill Barry about the role the Katherine G....

  7. 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.”

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