Agnes Nixon

In her two-and-a-half-hour interview, Agnes Nixon (1927-2016) discusses her love of reading and writing. She recalls attending Northwestern University and changing her focus from acting to writing. She talks of getting hired by legendary Irna Phillips to write for the soap opera Woman in White shortly after graduating college. She tells of moving to New York and writing for anthology dramas Robert Montgomery Presents and Hallmark Hall of Fame and writing for the early soap Search for Tomorrow. Nixon then details working for Irna Phillips on Guiding Light and co-creating As the World Turns with Phillips and Ted Corday. She then talks of creating and writing the successful soap operas All My Children, One Life to Live and Loving. She touches on casting for the programs (including casting Susan Lucci as "Erica Kane"), hiring writers and crafting popular storylines. Connie Passalacqua conducted the interview on October 21, 1997 in New York, NY.