The Department of English and the University Writing Center Host a Book Talk by Margot Lee Shetterly and Aran Shetterly

The Department of English and the University Writing Center To Host  a Book Talk
by Award-Winning Authors Margot Lee Shetterly and Aran Shetterly

Free and open to the public

Margot Lee Shetterly is a researcher and nonfiction writer. She is the author of Hidden Figures: The American Dream and the Untold Story of the Black Women Mathematicians Who Helped Win the Space Race. This New York Times bestseller and basis for the Academy Award-nominated film Hidden Figures chronicles the lives of Black women at NASA who were instrumental in achieving success in America's space program. Aran Shetterly is a journalist and narrative historian. He is the author of Morningside: The 1979 Greensboro Massacre and the Struggle for an American City's Soul. His book examines the late Reverend Nelson Johnson and Mrs. Joyce Hobson Johnson's fight for justice, truth, and reconciliation.

For more information, contact Professor Yolanda Williams, ywilliams1@ncat.edu