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- Hidden Figures is author, Margot Lee Shetterley's first book
- Was #1 on the New York Times Non-Fiction Best Sellers List
- Won the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award for Nonfiction in 2017
- The author's father worked at NASA with many of the book's main characters and she grew up knowing some of the women featured in the book
- The movie adaptation script was approved over a weekend and the movie in production five weeks later before the book was even released

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2...
Hidden Figures: The American Dream and the Untold Story of the Black Women Who Helped Win the Space Race was written by Margot Lee Shetterly and published in 2016. The book takes place from the 1930s through the 1960s when women were still viewed as inferior to men and follows the lives of Katherine Johnson, Dorothy Vaughan, and Mary Jackson, three mathematicians (known as "human computers". who overcame discrimination, as women and as African Americans, while working at NASA during the Space Race.