Hidden Figures author sets 2 new books about “extraordinary ordinary African-Americans”
Nothing boosts your career as an author quite like having your work get adapted into a successful, award-winning film, and now Hidden Figures author Margot Lee Shetterly is enjoying some of the perks of being the woman behind last year’s blockbuster film of the same name. As reported by Entertainment Weekly, Shetterly has just signed a two-book deal with publisher Viking, and she says both of them will follow Hidden Figures’ lead by telling stories about “extraordinary ordinary African-Americans” whose contributions to history to have been unfairly “untold, unseen, or overlooked.”