Margot Lee Shetterly
American nonfiction writer
Margot Lee Shetterly is an American nonfiction writer who wrote Hidden Figures, about the African-American women mathematicians at NASA.
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American Born 1969 in Hampton, United States
About Margot Lee Shetterly
Margot Lee Shetterly was born in 1969 and was raised in Hampton, Virginia, where she met many of the women featured in Hidden Figures. She has also worked in investment banking and media startups. She and her husband lived in Mexico for several years, where they founded and published Inside Mexico, a magazine for English-speaking readers. Hidden Figures was her first book, published in 2016. She sold the movie rights while still writing it, and it became a feature film of the same name. The Virginia Foundation for the Humanities has given her a grant for research, and she is also a fellow of the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation.