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

Title
  1. My life to live : how I became the queen of soaps when men ruled the airwaves / Agnes Nixon.
Published by
  1. New York : Crown Archetype, [2017]
Author
  1. Nixon, Agnes, 1922-2016

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Description
  1. xv, 266 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color); 22 cm
Summary
  1. 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
  1. Nixon, Agnes, 1922-2016
  2. Nixon, Agnes, 1922-2016
  3. All my children (Television program)
  4. One life to live (Television program)
  5. Women television writers > United States > Biography
  6. Women television producers and directors > United States > Biography
  7. Women television producers and directors
  8. Women television writers
  9. BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > Women
  10. PERFORMING ARTS > Direction & Production
  11. BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Entertainment & Performing Arts
  12. BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Women
  13. PERFORMING ARTS / Television
  14. United States
Genre/Form
  1. Biographies
  2. Biography.
Contents
  1. 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.
Owning institution
  1. Harvard Library
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