Shetterly margot lee5/24/2023 ![]() ![]() “The thrilling thing to me about the book, and the movie, is this is an American story that we’re getting to see through the faces of these women,” Ms. Shetterly sold her book proposal in 2014, and well before she started writing the book in earnest, a disorientingly fast, if exhilarating, turn. The movie rights were snapped up weeks after Ms. ![]() Henson, Octavia Spencer and Janelle Monáe, is scheduled for a year-end release and set for an Oscars run. The book garnered an early burst of attention because its movie version, starring Taraji P. Shetterly’s first book, “Hidden Figures,” a history being released on Tuesday by William Morrow. ![]() For decades, as the space race made heroes out of lantern-jawed astronauts, the stories of those women went largely untold.įour of them are the subjects of Ms. And that many women in her hometown defied convention, too, by having vibrant, and by most standards, unusual careers.īlack and female, dozens had worked at the space agency as mathematicians, often under Jim Crow laws, calculating crucial trajectories for rockets while being segregated from their white counterparts. It would be years before she learned that this was far from the American norm. Growing up here in the 1970s, in the shadow of Langley Research Center, where workers helped revolutionize air flight and put Americans on the moon, Margot Lee Shetterly had a pretty fixed idea of what scientists looked like: They were middle class, African-American and worked at NASA, like her dad. ![]()
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