The bestselling book was adapted into an Oscar-nominated film, and now NASA is using the name to honor the legacy of these unsung heroes. She graduated from The University of Hampton, and is a 2014 Alfred P. Growing up in Hampton, Virginia, in the 1970s, Shetterly lived just miles away from Langley. In 2016 Margot Lee Shetterly released Hidden Figures, a book about the three African-American women whose influential work helped America win the Space Race. Along with Aran Shetterly, Shetterly co-founded the magazine Inside Mexico.
She grew up around the historically black Hampton College, where the women in Hidden Figures studied. Shetterly’s father was among the early generation of black NASA engineers and scientists, and she had direct access to NASA executives and the women featured in the book. Shetterly is also the founder of the Human Computer Project, a digital archive of the stories of NASA’s African-American “Human Computers” whose work tipped the balance in favor of the United States in WWII, the Cold War, and the Space Race. Henson, Octavia Spencer, Janelle Monae, Kirsten Dunst, and Kevin Costner.
A highly anticipated film based on her book will be released in January 2017. Writer, researcher, and entrepreneur Margot Lee Shetterly is the author of Hidden Figures: The American Dream and the Untold Story of the Black Women Mathematicians Who Helped Win the Space Race. Margot Lee Shetterly is a Top 100 Bestselling Author Making Our List 11 Times Margot Lee Shetterly is the Author of the 1 New York Times best-selling book Hidden Figures: The American Dream and the Untold Story of the Black Women.
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