Agnes Nixon (Soap Opera Creator)

Abstract

Agnes Nixon (1927–2016) started her career in radio soap operas under the tutelage of Irna Philllps, the “Queen of Soaps.” Nixon honed her craft in the early days of television, writing for Phillips’s The Guiding Light and Another World, and co-creating As the World Turns before eventually creating her own soap operas, One Life to Live, All My Children, and Loving. She gained a reputation for incorporating social issues and topical material into her programs, operating under the idea that you could both educate and entertain an audience at the same time. Connie Passalacqua conducted the interview on October 21, 1997, in New York City, New York.