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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. 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).

  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. Obituary Katherine Johnson (19182020) NASA mathematician who calculated trajectories for early space flights. atherine Johnson was the most recognized of the African American “human computers” — female mathematicians who worked at NASA and its predecessor, the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA), from the 1930s until the ...

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  5. Nov 27, 2023 · Margot Lee Shetterly (McIntire ’91): Meet the ‘Geek’ Who Won UVA’s Distinguished Alumna Award. The award honors the McIntire alum and Author of Hidden Figures, who has used her talents as a force for change. By Alice Berry, vfu6kd@virginia.edu.

  6. Dec 29, 2016 · The person responsible for bringing that story to the public’s attention is Margot Lee Shetterly, who was also raised in Hampton, Va., albeit in the post-civil rights era. Shetterly’s book, “Hidden Figures,” upon which the movie is based, was recently published and has garnered overwhelmingly positive critical response.

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  8. 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] Synopsis. Shetterly started working on the book in 2010. [2] .

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