Margot Lee Shetterly

Margot Lee Shetterly
Shetterly in 2016
Born	(1969-06-30) June 30, 1969 (age 54) Hampton, Virginia, U.S.
Occupation	Writer
Alma mater	University of Virginia (BS)
Subject	Black history, women's history
Notable awards	Sloan Fellowship, Virginia Foundation for the Humanities Fellow
Website
www.margotleeshetterly.com

Margot Lee Shetterly (born June 30, 1969) is an American nonfiction writer who has also worked in investment banking and media startups. 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. 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).^[1] 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.