Research Catalog

Title

My life to live : how I became the queen of soaps when men ruled the airwaves / Agnes Nixon.

Author

Nixon, Agnes, 1922-2016

Publication

New York : Crown Archetype, [2017]

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Holdings

Details

Description

xv, 266 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color); 22 cm

Summary

In this memoir, Agnes Nixon--the television pioneer who wrote and produced the award-winning soap operas All my children and One life to live--outlines her own dramatic life and how she broke network taboos about controversial issues and began a long line of female showrunners.

Subject

• Nixon, Agnes, 1922-2016
• Nixon, Agnes, 1922-2016
• All my children (Television program)
• One life to live (Television program)
• Women television writers > United States > Biography
• Women television producers and directors > United States > Biography
• Women television producers and directors
• Women television writers
• BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > Women
• PERFORMING ARTS > Direction & Production
• BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Entertainment & Performing Arts
• BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Women
• PERFORMING ARTS / Television
• United States

Genre/Form

• Biographies
• Biography.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Paper dolls -- The problem with perfection -- Guiding lights -- The mills of God -- The promise of a kiss -- The eighth child -- Lieutenant Priester -- Freedom of opportunity -- New frontiers -- Search for tomorrow -- Best man -- Settling down -- The tie that binds -- Pine Valley dreams -- One life to live -- Make 'em laugh, make 'em cry, make 'em wait -- The power of the pencil -- The ratings speak -- Actors and me -- Time and tide.

ISBN

• 9780451498236
• 0451498232

LCCN

^^2016044129

OCLC

• 965781436
• SCSB-11410704

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library