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All the books by Margot Lee Shetterly adapted to cinema and television
Margot Lee Shetterly is known for being the author of the book Hidden Figures, first published in 2016, which was adapted to cinema by Theodore Melfi in 2016.
We invite you to watch, read, and vote for either the adaptation or the original, and join the debate on whether the book or the movie is better.
Hidden Figures
Margot Lee Shetterly, 2016
movie vs book
Theodore Melfi, 2016
In 1961, Katherine Johnson works as a human computer in the West Area Computers division of the Langley Research Center in Hampton, Virginia, alongside aspiring engineer Mary Jackson and their unofficial acting-supervisor Dorothy Vaughan. Encouraged by her team leader Karl Zielinski, a Polish-Jewish Holocaust survivor, Mary applies for an official NASA engineer position.