She describes herself as an entrepreneur and intrepid traveler. Shetterly founded The Human Computer Project, an effort to recover and preserve the accomplishments of the women employed by the NACA/NASA from the 1930s to the 1980s. Shetterly intends for Hidden Figures to be part of a trilogy, in conjunction with two other untold mid-century African American stories related to social mobility and the American Dream. Henson, Octavia Spencer, and Janelle Monáe. Hidden Figures won the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award for Nonfiction, and it was adapted into a film of the same name starring Taraji P. Hidden Figures was researched and written over six years she personally knew many of the women and families in the novel, and her father worked at the Langley Research Center. She worked in investment banking, magazine publication, and editorial consultation, among other jobs, and lived in Mexico for 11 years. Hidden Figures is a #1 New York Times bestseller.īorn in Hampton, Virginia, in 1969, Shetterly graduated from the University of Virginia’s McIntire School of Commerce. Growing up in Hampton, Virginia, author Margot Shetterly took for granted that scientists and mathematicians would as often as not be female and nonwhite. Margot Lee Shetterly is an American writer, author of Hidden Figures: The American Dream and the Untold Story of the Black Women Mathematicians Who Helped Win the Space Race (2016).
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