Rita Lakin
1930 – 2023
Rita Lakin is one of the most successive female screenwriters of all time with more than 470 produced television scripts under her name spanning more than 30 productions. Furthermore, she is also a novelist who is best known for the book, The Only Woman in the Room, which happens to be a memoir of her life. In The Only Woman, Rita Lakin narrates what it was the first female show runners and also one of the very first women on television. Apart from non-fiction books, Rita Lakin has also penned numerous non-fiction books such as The Gladdy Gold Mystery, which is a seven book series including the novels Getting Old Can Kill You and Getting Old is Murder. Despite the fact that Rita Lakin loved for writing, she was not able to become a full-time writer after completing her college education.