Margot Lee Shetterly
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Margot Lee Shetterly (born June 30, 1969) is an American
Early life and education
Margot Lee was born in 1969 in
Career
After college, she moved to New York and worked several years in investment banking, first on the Foreign Exchange trading desk at
In 2005, Shetterly and her husband moved to Mexico to found an English-language magazine called Inside Mexico.
Shetterly began researching and writing Hidden Figures in 2010. In 2014, she sold the film rights to the book to
for Octavia Spencer).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
In 2018, Shetterly published a children's picture book, Hidden Figures: The True Story of Four Black Women and the Space Race. The book was illustrated by Laura Freeman.[9]
Personal life
Margot Lee married Aran Shetterly, a writer and historian.[10]
Works
- ISBN 9780062363596.
- NASA-Langley Women's History Month 2014 Keynote: "Hidden Figures: The Female Mathematicians of NACA and NASA"
- ISBN 978-0062742469.
Honors
- Shetterly received a 2014 Book Grant from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation[11] for her book Hidden Figures. This first nonfiction work went on to win the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award.[12]
- Shetterly has received two grants from the Virginia Foundation for the Humanities for her work on The Human Computer Project.[13]
- She also won the 2017 NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literary Work, Nonfiction.[14]
- On May 12, 2018, Shetterly was awarded an honorary Doctor of Humane Letters degree from Worcester Polytechnic Institute at its 150th Commencement exercises.[15]
- She received Mathical Honors for Hidden Figures[16]
References
- ^ Buckley, Cara (May 20, 2016). "Uncovering a Tale of Rocket Science, Race and the '60s". The New York Times. Retrieved July 13, 2016.
- ^ Epstein, Sonia. "NASA Mathematician Katherine Johnson Receives Presidential Medal". Sloan Science and Film. Retrieved July 13, 2016.
- ^ Mirk, Sarah (May 23, 2016). "In 'Hidden Figures,' NASA'S African American Mathematicians Will Land on the Big Screen". Bitch Media. Retrieved July 13, 2016.
- ^ Atkinson, Joe (August 24, 2015). "From Computers to Leaders: Women at NASA Langley". NASA Langley. Retrieved July 13, 2016.
- LA Times. Retrieved July 13, 2016.
- ^ Deahl, Rachel (March 10, 2014). "Book Deals: Week of March 10, 2014". Publishers Weekly. Retrieved July 14, 2016.
- ^ Fleming, Mike Jr. (July 9, 2015). "Ted Melfi & Fox 2000 in Talks For 'Hidden Figures'; How A Group of Math-Savvy Black Women Helped NASA Win Space Race". Deadline. Retrieved July 13, 2016.
- ^ Atkinson, Joe (August 24, 2015). "From Computers to Leaders: Women at NASA Langley". NASA Langley. Retrieved July 13, 2016.
- ^ Ha, Thu-Huong. "A children's picture book of "Hidden Figures" is coming". Quartz. Retrieved October 9, 2017.
- ^ Fadulu, Lola (August 2, 2018). "The Upside of Career Restlessness". The Atlantic. Retrieved May 28, 2020.
- ^ Epstein, Sonia. "NASA Mathematician Katherine Johnson Receives Presidential Medal". Sloan Science and Film. Retrieved July 13, 2016.
- ^ "Hidden Figures". Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards. Retrieved March 3, 2020.
- ^ Bearinger, David (January 26, 2015). "The Human Computer Project". Virginia Foundation for the Humanitie. Retrieved July 13, 2016.
- ^ Lewis, Hilary and Arlene Washington (February 10, 2017). "2017 NAACP Image Award Winners: Complete List". The Hollywood Reporter.
- ^ "Margot Lee Shetterly, Author of Hidden Figures, Delivers the Address at Worcester Polytechnic Institute Undergraduate Commencement". Worcester Polytechnic Institute. Retrieved May 12, 2018.
- ^ "Mathical Book Prizes 2021" (PDF).
External links
- Margot Lee Shetterly website
- The Human Computer Project
- Hidden Figures, HarperCollins site
- "Margot Lee Shetterly Wants To Tell More Black Stories". Interview by Ann Marie Cox, The Telegraph., 13 September 2016.
- Appearances on C-SPAN