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^ Bearinger, David (January 26, 2015).'A children's picture book of 'Hidden Figures' is coming'. 'Ted Melfi & Fox 2000 in Talks For 'Hidden Figures' How A Group of Math-Savvy Black Women Helped NASA Win Space Race'. 'From Computers to Leaders: Women at NASA Langley'. 'In 'Hidden Figures,' NASA'S African American Mathematicians Will Land on the Big Screen'. 'NASA Mathematician Katherine Johnson Receives Presidential Medal'. 'Uncovering a Tale of Rocket Science, Race and the '60s'. She received Mathical Honors for Hidden Figures.

On May 12, 2018, Shetterly was awarded an honorary Doctor of Humane Letters degree from Worcester Polytechnic Institute at its 150th Commencement exercises.

She also won the 2017 NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literary Work, Nonfiction.

Shetterly has received two grants from the Virginia Foundation for the Humanities for her work on The Human Computer Project.

This first nonfiction work went on to win the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award. Sloan Foundation for her book Hidden Figures.

Shetterly received a 2014 Book Grant from the Alfred P.

Hidden Figures: The True Story of Four Black Women and the Space Race, HarperCollins, 2018.

NASA-Langley Women's History Month 2014 Keynote: 'Hidden Figures: The Female Mathematicians of NACA and NASA'.

Hidden Figures: The Story of the African-American Women Who Helped Win the Space Race.

Margot Lee married Aran Shetterly, a writer and historian. The book was illustrated by Laura Freeman. In 2018, Shetterly published a children's picture book, Hidden Figures: The True Story of Four Black Women and the Space Race.

TARAJI P HENSON HIDDEN FIGURES BOOK ARCHIVE

In 2013, Shetterly founded The Human Computer Project, an organization whose mission is to archive the work of all of the women who worked as computers and mathematicians in the early days of the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA) and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). It was nominated for several awards, including three Oscar nominations ( Best Picture, Best Adapted Screenplay and Best Supporting Actress for Octavia Spencer). Henson, Octavia Spencer, Janelle Monáe, and Kevin Costner. The book and feature film adaptation were both released in 2016. In 2014, she sold the film rights to the book to William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollins, and it was optioned by Donna Gigliotti of Levantine Films. Shetterly began researching and writing Hidden Figures in 2010. From 2010 through 2013, the couple worked as content marketing and editorial consultants to the Mexican tourism industry. Directed to the numerous English-speaking expats in the country, it operated until 2009. In 2005, Shetterly and her husband moved to Mexico to found an English-language magazine called Inside Mexico. She shifted to the media industry, working at a variety of startup ventures, including the HBO-funded website. Morgan, then on Merrill Lynch's Fixed Income Capital Markets desk. She attended Phoebus High School in 1975 and graduated from the University of Virginia's McIntire School of Commerce.Īfter college, she moved to New York and worked several years in investment banking, first on the Foreign Exchange trading desk at J.P. Lee grew up knowing many African-American families with members who worked at NASA. Lee was an English professor at the historically black Hampton University. Her father named Robert Lee III worked as a research scientist at NASA's Langley Research Center, and her mother named Margaret G. Margot Lee was born in 1969 in Hampton, Virginia. For several years Shetterly and her husband lived and worked in Mexico, where they founded and published Inside Mexico, a magazine directed to English-speaking readers.

TARAJI P HENSON HIDDEN FIGURES BOOK MOVIE

She sold the movie rights while still working on the book, and it was adapted as a feature film of the same name, Hidden Figures (2016). 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 program. Margot Lee Shetterly (born June 30, 1969) is an American nonfiction writer who has also worked in investment banking and media startups. Sloan Fellowship, Virginia Foundation for the Humanities Fellow

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