Bibliograph

My remarkable journey, a memoir, Katherine Johnson with Joylette Hylick and Katherine Moore

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My remarkable journey, a memoir, Katherine Johnson with Joylette Hylick and Katherine Moore

Language

eng

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Literary text for sound recordings

autobiography

Main title

My remarkable journey

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Responsibility statement

Katherine Johnson with Joylette Hylick and Katherine Moore

Sub title

a memoir

Summary

In 2015, at age ninety-seven, Katherine G. Johnson became a celebrity. President Obama awarded her the Presidential Medal of Freedom for her pioneering work as a mathematician on NASA's first flights into space. In this memoir, Johnson shares her journey from child prodigy to NASA human computer. This multidimensional portrait is also a racial history that reveals the role educators at segregated schools played in nurturing trailblazers like her

Target audience

adult

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