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Their story is inspiring and enlightening. -- Kirkus Reviews This is an incredibly powerful and complex story, and Shetterly has it down cold...Her well-documented research is immense, and her narrative compels on every level. -- Booklist (starred review) Shetterly's highly recommended work offers up a crucial history that had previously and unforgivably been lost. -- Library Journal (starred review) Exploring the intimate relationships among blackness, womanhood, and twentieth-century American technological development. -- Publishers Weekly (starred review)

Their story is inspiring and enlightening. -- Kirkus Reviews Exploring the intimate relationships among blackness, womanhood, and twentieth-century American technological development. -- Publishers Weekly (starred review) This is an incredibly powerful and complex story, and Shetterly has it down cold...Her well-documented research is immense, and her narrative compels on every level. -- Booklist (starred review) Shetterly's highly recommended work offers up a crucial history that had previously and unforgivably been lost. -- Library Journal (starred review)

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Margot Lee Shetterly is a writer who grew up in Hampton, Virginia, where she knew many of the women in her book Hidden Figures. She is an Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Fellow and the recipient of a Virginia Foundation for the Humanities grant for her research on women in computing. Bahni Turpin has guest starred in many television series, including NYPD Blue, Law & Order, Six Feet Under, and Cold Case. Her film credits include Brokedown Palace and Crossroads. She has won numerous AudioFile Earphones Awards and three prestigious Audie Awards.

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