Hidden Figures: The Untold Story of the African-American Women Who Helped Win the Space Race

Author(s): Margot Lee Shetterly

Biography, Memoir & Autobiography

Before John Glenn orbited the earth or Neil Armstrong walked on the moon, a group of dedicated female mathematicians known as "human computers" used pencils, slide rules, and adding machines to calculate the numbers that would launch rockets, and astronauts, into space. Now in a special new edition perfect for young readers, this is the amazing true story of four African American female mathematicians at NASA who helped achieve some of the greatest moments in our space program. Soon to be a major motion picture.

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'Shetterly's highly recommended work offers up a crucial history that had previously and unforgivably been lost. We'd do well to put this book into the hands of young women who have long since been told that there's no room for them at the scientific table' Library Journal 'This an is incredibly powerful and complex story, and Shetterly has it down cold. The breadth of her well-documented research is immense, and her narrative compels on every level. The timing of this revelatory book could not be better, and book clubs will adore it' Booklist

Margot Lee Shetterly is an independent scholar and an Alfred P. Sloan Foundation award recipient, currently at work on The Human Computer Project, a digital archive of the stories of NASA's female Human Computers. She is one of the founders of Inside Mexico Magazine, an English-language magazine for Mexico's expat population, and in her former lives worked as an Internet executive and an investment banker. She splits her time between Hampton, Virginia and Valle de Bravo, Mexico.

General Fields

  • : 9780008201326
  • : HarperCollins Publishers Limited
  • : Harper Element
  • : 0.248
  • : August 2016
  • : 197mm X 130mm
  • : United Kingdom
  • : books

Special Fields

  • : Margot Lee Shetterly
  • : Paperback
  • : Feb-17
  • : English
  • : 510.92/520973 B
  • : very good
  • : 384
  • : HBTB