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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 accomplishments.
Dec 29, 2021 · Join us for a discussion of Margot Lee Shetterly’s Hidden Figures, the phenomenal true story of the black female mathematicians whose calculations fueled some of America’s greatest achievements in space, our Community Read book for September.
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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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).
Jan 9, 2022 · Per Smithsonian Magazine, "Hidden Figures" — which stars Taraji P. Henson, Janelle Monáe, and Octavia Spencer — was based on a book of the same name, written by Margot Lee Shetterly. Shetterly grew up just a few miles from NASA's Langley Research Center, which is where "Hidden Figures" takes place.
Now she's the author of the number-one New York Times bestseller "Hidden Figures," which chronicles the challenges and contributions of the Black women who worked at NASA from the 1930s through the 1960s.
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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 ...
