To describe Patty Lin's TV writing resume as enviable undersells her achievement. Within the space of a decade, she'd racked up a list of credits that includes some of the biggest titles of TV's golden age, including "Freaks and Geeks," "Desperate Housewives," "Breaking Bad" and The One She Refers To as the "F" bomb, "Friends."
In case the title of her recently released memoir "End Credits: How I Broke Up with Hollywood" isn't sufficient enough of a hint, most of those writers' rooms were tough to bear for an Asian woman who was frequently the only non-white person on staff.
