![]() Lee grew up knowing many African-American families with members who worked at NASA. Her father worked as a research scientist at NASA's Langley Research Center, and her mother was an English professor at the historically black Hampton University. 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. ![]() 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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