"HIDDEN FIGURES" author has two more books up her sleeve.
After charming both audiences and the academy, Hidden Figures is just the beginning of what's to come from Margot Lee Shetterly. Shetterly, who authored the book that inspired the Oscar-nominated film, is set to release two more books that bring to life previously overlooked icons in Black history. As reported by the Huffington Post , Viking announced the news on Monday, revealing that Shetterly's upcoming books will profile “extraordinary ordinary African-Americans whose contributions to American history have, for one reason or another, been untold, unseen, or overlooked.” This is exactly what Shetterly did in Hidden Figures , which detailed the work of Dorothy Vaughan, Mary Jackson, Katherine Johnson, and Christine Darden. The four women were behind the computers in NASA's space station, but their crucial work was swept under the rug because of their race. "Without them we would not know how to reach the stars," star Taraji P. Henson said while accepting Hid...