Margot Lee Shetterly
Författare till Hidden Figures: The American Dream and the Untold Story of the Black Women Mathematicians Who Helped Win the Space Race
Om författaren
Margot Lee Shetterly was born in Hampton, Virginia in 1969. She is a graduate of the University of Virginia's McIntire School of Commerce. After college she worked in investment banking for several years. Her other career moves have included working in the media industry for the website Volume visa mer .com, publishing an English language magazine, Inside Mexico; marketing consultant in the Mexican tourism industry; and writing. Hidden Figures is her first book, a New York Times Bestseller and was optioned for a feature film. (Bowker Author Biography) visa färre
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Verk av Margot Lee Shetterly
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Allmänna fakta
- Födelsedag
- 1969
- Kön
- female
- Nationalitet
- USA
- Födelseort
- Hampton, Virginia, USA
- Bostadsorter
- Hampton, Virginia, USA
Charlottesville, Virginia, USA
Mexico - Utbildning
- University of Virginia
Phoebus High School - Yrken
- investment banker
author - Relationer
- Shetterly, Aran (husband)
- Organisationer
- The Human Computer Project
- Agent
- Mackenzie Brady Watson
Jason Richman - Kort biografi
- 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 (William Morrow/HarperCollins) and the founder of The Human Computer Project, an endeavor that is recovering the names and accomplishments of all of the women who worked as computers, mathematicians, scientists and engineers at the NACA and NASA from the 1930s through the 1980s.
She is a Hampton, Virginia native, University of Virginia graduate, an entrepreneur, and an intrepid traveler who spent 11 years living in Mexico, currently living in Charlottesville, VA.
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- 6
- Medlemmar
- 7,667
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- #3,182
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- 4.0
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- 284
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- 81
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NASA, when these women started working there, was known as NACA (National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics). During WWII, NACA hired women as female computers who essentially did the work of mathematicians but were paid less.
I enjoyed how this book relayed the stories of each woman; however, I felt that it was a dry read overall. It is not like the movie although there are some aspects of the movie in the book. I liked the Epilogue at the end which discussed these women and their lives after they retired.… (mer)