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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 ...
Hidden Figures is a 2016 American film loosely based on the book by Margot Lee Shetterly. Hidden Figures or Hidden Figure may also refer to: Hidden Figures, nonfiction by Margot Lee Shetterly Hidden Figures (picture book), by Margot Lee Shetterly; Operation Hidden Figure, Brazil
This is a list of books written by black authors that have appeared on The New York Times Best Sellers list in any ranking or category. The New York Times Fiction Best Seller list, in the Combined Print & E-Book Fiction category. [1]
Margot Lee Shetterly's book, Hidden Figures: The Story of the African-American Women Who Helped Win the Space Race recounts the achievements of Katherine Johnson and other African-American women at NASA. It was adapted as a feature film, Hidden Figures, released in 2016.
Peddrew's story, along with those of her colleagues Katherine Johnson, Dorothy Vaughan, and Mary Jackson, was brought to the public's attention through Margot Lee Shetterly's book "Hidden Figures: The American Dream and the Untold Story of the Black Women Mathematicians Who Helped Win the Space Race" in 2016.