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Vaughan was born September 20, 1910, in Kansas City, Missouri, as Dorothy Jean Johnson. [2] She was the daughter of [3] Annie and Leonard Johnson. At the age of seven, her family moved to Morgantown, West Virginia, where she graduated from Beechurst High School in 1925 as her class valedictorian. [4]
Taraji P. Henson starred as mathematician Katherine Johnson, Octavia Spencer played Dorothy Vaughan, an African-American mathematician who worked for NASA in 1949, and Janelle Monáe played Mary Jackson, the first female African-American engineer to work for NASA. [16] The movie made US$231.3 million. The budget of the film was US$25 million.
Her writing career seemed to take off in 1930, when she sold her first short story to The Saturday Evening Post for $400. [4] [5] Johnson did not sell another story, though, for 11 years, until in 1941, four stories narrated by a recurring character, "Beulah Bunny", sold to The Saturday Evening Post for $2,100.
Dorothy Johnson (actress) (1936–2022), American model and actress Dorothy M. Johnson (1905–1984), American author of Western fiction Dorothy Vena Johnson (1898–1970), American poet and educator
Dorothy E. Johnson (August 21, 1919 – February 4, 1999) [1] was an American nurse, researcher, author, and theorist. She is known for creating the behavioral system model and for being one of the founders of modern system-based nursing theory .
Foster Barham married, first, Dorothy Vaughan, a Welsh heiress. They had three sons and three daughters: [21] Mary (died 1837 aged 79), [22] who was a correspondent of John Newton, and married George Livius in 1783. [13] [23] [24] Their daughter Maria married John Johnson, William Cowper's relative and editor. [25] Joseph Foster Barham (1759 ...
Dorothy Vaughan (November 5, 1890 – March 15, 1955) was an American actress. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] She appeared in more than 143 films and television. Vaughan is best known for appearing in Slander House (1930), The Ape (1940) and Lady Gangster (1942).
Dorothy Vaughan (1910–2008) was an American mathematician and human computer. Dorothy Vaughan may also refer to: Dorothy Vaughan (actress) (1890–1955), American actress; Dorothy Vaughan (social reformer) (1881–1974), Australian social reformer