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Margot Lee Shetterly
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Margot Lee Shetterly is an American nonfiction writer whose first book, Hidden Figures, examines African-American women mathematicians’ contributions to the United States space program.
Biography
Margot Lee Shetterly is an American nonfiction writer born on June 30, 1969. She has also worked in investment banking and media startups. For several years, she and her husband lived and worked in Mexico, where they founded and published Inside Mexico, a magazine for English-speaking readers.
Her first book, Hidden Figures: The American Dream and the Untold Story of the Black Women Who Helped Win the Space Race, was published in 2016. It tells the story of African-American women mathematicians working at NASA whose contributions were instrumental to the United States space program. Shetterly sold the film rights while still writing the book, which was adapted into the feature film Hidden Figures, also released in 2016.
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Books by Margot Lee Shetterly
Hidden Figures
Hidden Figures follows Dorothy Vaughan, Mary Jackson, Katherine Johnson and Christine Darden, African-American women mathematicians whose work contributed to the United States space program. Spanning World War II, the Cold War, the Civil Rights Movement and the Space Race, it describes their mathematical work and the racial segregation they faced.