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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 ...
Learn about Margot Lee Shetterly, the author of Hidden Figures, a book that reveals the untold story of the Black women mathematicians who helped win the space race. She is also the founder of The Human Computer Project, a research initiative to recover the names and achievements of all the women who worked at NACA and NASA.
Dec 6, 2016 · The phenomenal true story of the black female mathematicians at NASA whose calculations helped fuel some of America’s greatest achievements in space—a powerful, revelatory history essential to our understanding of race, discrimination, and achievement in modern America.
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.
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Margot Lee Shetterly is the author of Hidden Figures (3.97 avg rating, 106343 ratings, 10526 reviews, published 2016), Hidden Figures (3.80 avg rating, 1...
Sep 6, 2016 · Margot Lee Shetterly. HarperCollins, Sep 6, 2016 - Biography & Autobiography - 384 pages. The #1 New York Times bestseller. The phenomenal true story of the black female mathematicians at...
