Hidden Figures: The American Dream and the Untold Story of the Black Women Mathematicians Who Helped Win the Space Race

Author
Margot Lee Shetterly
Content
xviii + 349 pp., bibl., index
Publication date
2016
Publisher
New York: William Morrow/HarperCollins
Publication notes
A teacher's guide is available
Description
Covers Christine Darden, Mary Jackson, Katherine Johnson, and Dorothy Vaughan.
Main subject
Autobiography and Biography
Science, Environment, Mathematics, and Technology
ISBN
9780062363596 (cloth); 9780062363602 (pap.); 9780062363619 (ebook)
Citation
Shetterly, Margot Lee. Hidden Figures: The American Dream and the Untold Story of the Black Women Mathematicians Who Helped Win the Space Race. New York: William Morrow/HarperCollins, 2016. Sylvia. Accessed January 21, 2026. https://sylvia.library.wisc.edu/catalog/SYL4046.
Updated
04-29-2025

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Ms., Winter 2016, 41
New York Times Book Review, Jan. 1, 2017, 10–11
Women's Review of Books, Mar.–Apr. 2017, 26–27

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