Margot Lee Shetterly

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Margot Lee Shetterly (* 1969 in Hampton , Virginia ) is an American non-fiction author . Her first book Hidden Figures was translated into 16 languages, filmed under the same name and received an Anisfield-Wolf Book Award in 2017 and the NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literary Work in the Nonfiction category.

Life

Shetterly was born in Hampton, Virginia in 1969 . Her father was a scientist at NASA's Langley Research Center , and her mother was an English professor at Hampton University. Shetterly attended Phoebus High School in Hampton, Virginia and the McIntire School of Commerce at the University of Virginia .

After college she moved to New York and worked in investment banking for several years , first at JP Morgan , then at Merrill Lynch . She then switched to the media industry and worked for various start-up companies , including a. the HBO sponsored website Volume.com.

In 2005, she and her husband, writer Aran Shetterly, moved to Mexico. There they founded the English-language magazine Inside Mexico for expats , which was published until 2009.

From 2010 to 2013 the Shetterlys worked as consultants for the Mexican tourism industry.

Shetterly began researching Hidden Figures in 2010 . In 2014 the book rights were sold to HarperCollins , the film rights went to Donna Gigliotti of Levantine Films.

In 2013 she founded The Human Computer Project . The aim of this organization is to archive the work of all women who worked as " human computers " and mathematicians in the early years of the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA) and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA); B. in the West Area Computing Unit .

Her book Hidden Figures was published in the fall of 2016 and quickly became a New York Times bestseller. The book was filmed in the same year by Fox 2000 as Hidden Figures - Unrecognized Heroines . Taraji P. Henson plays Katherine Johnson in it . Octavia Spencer , Janelle Monáe , Kevin Costner , Kirsten Dunst , and Jim Parsons also play in other roles .

Works

  • Hidden Figures - Unrecognized heroines . HarperCollins, Hamburg 2017, ISBN 978-3-95967-084-5 (400 pages, American English: Hidden Figures . New York 2016.). Translated by Michael Windgassen, Sandra Ritters
  • NASA-Langley Women's History Month 2014 Keynote: "Hidden Figures: The Female Mathematicians of NACA and NASA." [1]

reception

Shetterly received the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Fellowship in 2014 for her book Hidden Figures and two Virginia Foundation for the Humanities grants for her work on The Human Computer Project .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Sonia Epstein: NASA Mathematician Katherine Johnson Receives Presidential Medal . Retrieved July 13, 2016.
  2. ↑ In 'Hidden Figures,' NASA'S African American Mathematicians Wil Land on the Big Screen . In: Bitch Media , May 23, 2016. Retrieved July 13, 2016. 
  3. ^ Joe Atkinson: From Computers to Leaders: Women at NASA Langley . Retrieved July 13, 2016.
  4. ^ Speaking the Same Language . In: LA Times , February 14, 2007. Retrieved July 13, 2016. 
  5. ↑ Book Deals: Week of March 10, 2014 . In: Publishers Weekly , March 10, 2014. Retrieved July 14, 2016. 
  6. ↑ Ted Melfi & Fox 2000 in Talks For 'Hidden Figures'; How A Group of Math-Savvy Black Women Helped NASA Win Space Race . In: Deadline , July 9, 2015. Accessed July 13, 2016. 
  7. ^ Joe Atkinson: From Computers to Leaders: Women at NASA Langley . Retrieved July 13, 2016.
  8. ^ The Story Behind This Week's Best Sellers. September 16, 2016, accessed October 31, 2016 .
  9. ↑ Uncovering a Tale of Rocket Science, Race and the '60s . In: The New York Times , May 20, 2016. Retrieved July 13, 2016. 
  10. ^ Sonia Epstein: NASA Mathematician Katherine Johnson Receives Presidential Medal . Retrieved July 13, 2016.
  11. ↑ David Bearinger: The Human Computer Project . Retrieved July 13, 2016.
personal data
SURNAME Shetterly, Margot Lee
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American non-fiction author
DATE OF BIRTH 1969
PLACE OF BIRTH Hampton , Virginia