The Only Woman in the Room: Episodes in My Life and Career as a Television Writer

by Rita Lakin

Book Overview

Rita Lakin was a pioneer - a female scriptwriter in the early 1960s when Hollywood television was exclusively male. For years, in creative meetings she was literally "the only woman in the room." In this breezy but heartfelt remembrance, Lakin takes readers to a long-forgotten time when women were not considered worthy or welcome at the creative table. Widowed with three young children, she talked herself into a secretarial job at Universal Studios...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1495014053
• ISBN13: 9781495014055
• Release Date: September 2015
• Publisher: Applause Books
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.0" x 9.1"