Margot Lee Shetterly

About Margot Lee Shetterly

Former investment banker turned author whose book Hidden Figures: The Story of the African-American Women Who Helped Win the Space Race catapulted her to celebrity. The novel would later be adapted into a film of the same name.

Margot Lee Shetterly is an American non-fiction writer who has also worked in investment banks and media startups. Her first book, Hidden Numbers: Stories of African-American Women who Help Win the Space Race, mentioned African-American female mathematicians working at NASA, but people who have contributed to the success of the US space program. She sold the rights to the film while working on the book, and it was adapted into the feature film of the same name, Hidden Figures. For several years, Shetterly and her husband lived and worked in Mexico, where they founded and published Inside Mexico, the magazine for English-speaking foreigners.

Notable awards	Sloan Fellowship, Virginia Foundation for the Humanities Fellow
Occupation	Writer
Born	June 30, 1969, Hampton, Virginia, U.S.
Alma mater	University of Virginia (BS)
Subject	Black history, women's history

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Trivia

In 2013, she founded The Human Computer Project, an organization dedicated to archiving the work of women computers and mathematicians during the early days of NASA and NACA.

Margot Lee Shetterly before fame

She worked in investment banking for several years after graduating from the University of Virginia before moving into several media businesses.

Achievement of Margot Lee Shetterly

She launched The Human Computer Project in 2013, an organization dedicated to archiving the contributions of female computer scientists and mathematicians during NASA's and NACA's early years.

Salary 2020

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Net Worth 2020

Undisclosed

Margot Lee Shetterly family life

Her father worked at NASA's Langley Research Center as a research scientist, while her mother taught English at Hampton University. Inside Mexico was founded by her and her husband, Aran.

Associations of Margot Lee Shetterly

Before the book's release, she sold the picture rights to Hidden Figures. Taraji P. Henson, Janelle Monae, and Octavia Spencer appeared in the Oscar-nominated picture.

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