I pulled over into a supermarket parking lot and did this phone call with her, and just said, “I have not written a book, I have never written a book, I have a book to deliver, why are you talking about this movie, what is this?” You know, there were so many times when I thought, maybe I should have waited until I had the full book to option the film. So, Donna Gigliotti, who’s the producer-who’s just a super-genius, visionary woman-she called me up, and I remember I was in Hampton at the time, coming from visiting Katherine Johnson. KO: I’m sure that seeing the movie is even more like going back in time. I would still be writing and doing it if I didn’t have to make the book, because I loved it so much. Margot Lee Shetterly: I got so lost in the history, and women, and the time-it became like time travel. Kristen O’Neal: First off, I love how you manage to make history read like a novel. We discussed the adaptation, the concepts of historical canon and intersectionality, and what’s next for her. The process of working on Hidden Figures has been a whirlwind for her-the film rights were optioned before the book was even published.
Shetterly herself grew up in Hampton, Virginia alongside the black, female NASA mathematicians, engineers, and scientists that she details in her book.
Hidden Figures tells the little-known story of Dorothy Vaughan, Mary Jackson, Katherine Johnson, and Christine Darden, four math teachers at public schools in the South who were recruited to NASA during the labor shortages of World War II. I got the chance to sit down with Margot Lee Shetterly, the author of Hidden Figures, after a press conference for its upcoming film adaptation.
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