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• Title:My remarkable journey : a memoir / Katherine Johnson ; with Joylette Hylick and Katherine Moore and with Lisa Frazier Page.
  
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• Author/Creator:Johnson, Katherine G., author.
  
• Other Contributors/Collections:Hylick, Joylette, author.
  Moore, Katherine (Writer at National Geographic Kids), author.
  Page, Lisa Frazier, author.
  
• Published/Created:New York, NY : Amistad, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, 2021.
  ©2021
  

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  • Location:WOODWARD LIBRARY Great ReadsWhere is this?
    
  • Call Number: QA29.J64 A3 2021
    
  • Number of Items:1
    
  • Status:Available
    

   
• Library of Congress Subjects:Johnson, Katherine G.
  United States. National Aeronautics and Space Administration--Officials and employees--Biography.
  African American women mathematicians--Biography.
  Women mathematicians--United States--Biography.
  
• Edition:First edition.
  
• Description:xvi, 235 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm
  
• Summary:The woman at the heart of the New York Times bestseller and Oscar-winning film "Hidden Figures" shares her personal journey from child prodigy in the Allegheny Mountains of West Virginia to NASA human computer and her integral role in the early years of the U.S. space program
  In 2015, at the age of ninety-seven, Johnson became a global celebrity for her pioneering work as a mathematician on NASA's first flight into space. In her memoir Johnson provides a record of racial history that reveals the influential role Black educators played in nurturing the dreams of trailblazers like herself, and brings into focus the unrelenting grit required to make history and inspire future generations. -- adapted from jacket
  
• Notes:Includes bibliographical references (pages 221-235).
  
• ISBN:9780062897664 (hardcover)
  0062897667 (hardcover)
  
• Contents:Machine generated contents note: 1. Nobody Else Is Better Than You
  2. Education Matters
  3. Time for Everything
  4. Blessing of Help
  5. Be Ready
  6. Ask Brave Questions
  7. Tomorrow Comes
  8. Love What You Do
  9. Shoot for the Moon
  10. Finish Strong
  11. Land on a Firm Foundation.