Hidden Figures - A Review
A few weeks ago, my husband and I were very honored to have been invited by dear friends to the USC Scripter Awards . That evening, we struck up a conversation with a couple we encountered in one of the Library exhibits. Later, as the awards ceremony got underway, I realized that the woman with whom I'd so enjoyed discussing evening gowns and Virginia and Mexico was Margot Lee Shetterly, the author of the book, Hidden Figures . She was at the Scripter Awards as an honoree, along with the screenwriter for the film based on her work, which my family had just seen two nights before. After dinner, Ed and I sought Margot and her husband Aran again so I could properly gush about her work. I had loved the movie, Hidden Figures - a deft weaving together of the threads from three of the women's lives, layered in the subtle and glaring racism, and painting a vivid picture of life as an educated, professional black woman in the early 1960s - but after the conversations we ha