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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 instrumental to the success of the United States space ...
[7] [8] Author Margot Lee Shetterly's father was a research scientist at NASA who worked with many of the book's main characters. Shetterly explains how these women overcame discrimination and racial segregation to become vital parts of mathematics, scientific, and engineering history.
Hidden Figures: The True Story of Four Black Women and the Space Race is a 2018 picture book by Margot Lee Shetterly with Winifred Conkling, illustrated by Laura Freeman. The picture book is adapted from Shetterly's 2016 non-fiction book Hidden Figures: The American Dream and the Untold Story of the Black Women Who Helped Win the Space Race ...
Hidden Figures is a 2016 American biographical drama film directed by Theodore Melfi and written by Melfi and Allison Schroeder.It is loosely based on the 2016 non-fiction book of the same name by Margot Lee Shetterly about three female African-American mathematicians: Katherine Goble Johnson (Taraji P. Henson), Dorothy Vaughan (Octavia Spencer), and Mary Jackson (Janelle Monáe), who worked ...
Dork Diaries Book 11: Tales From a Not-So-Friendly Frenemy: Rachel Renee Russell: January 29, 2017 Hidden Figures: Margot Lee Shetterly: January 29, 2017 Kindred (graphic novel) Octavia Butler with Damian Duffy and John Jennings February 28, 2017 The Hate U Give: Angie Thomas: March 26, 2017 Dear Ijeawele: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie: April 9, 2017
Hoover is one of the first black women to be listed as a co-author on NASA research publications. [1] Her research supported the development of America's first jet fighter, the Sabre. [ 2 ] Hoover's accomplishments were featured in Margot Lee Shetterly's bestselling book, Hidden Figures .
Hidden Figures is a 2016 American biographical drama film directed by Theodore Melfi, who co-wrote the screenplay with Allison Schroeder, and based on the non-fiction book of the same name by Margot Lee Shetterly. [1]
Margot Lee Shetterly's biographical book, Hidden Figures (made into a movie of the same name in 2016), depicts African-American women who served as human computers at NASA in support of the Friendship 7, the first American crewed mission into Earth orbit. [43] NACA had begun hiring black women as computers from 1940. [44]