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  1. 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...

  2. 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.”

  3. 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 ...

  4. Jan 24, 2017 · The Story of NASA’s Real “Hidden Figures”. African-American women working behind the scenes as “human computers” were vital to the Space Race. By Elizabeth Howell & SPACE.com. Mary ...

  5. Feb 28, 2017 · Based on the non-fiction book of the same name by Margot Lee Shetterly, it aims to showcase what can be done in the face of adversity, when sexism and racism tries to put you in a box and...

  6. 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]

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  8. May 4, 2023 · Today, you’ll hear about Margot’s journey in writing Hidden Figures. She describes her childhood in Hampton, Virginia, growing up surrounded by engineers and scientists and shares her experience witnessing the 9/11 attacks while living in New York City.

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