| LC control no. | no 97077128 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Nixon, Agnes, 1922-2016 |
| Variant(s) | Eckhardt, Agnes, 1922-2016 |
| Associated country | United States |
| Located | Nashville (Tenn.) |
| Birth date | 1922-12-10 |
| Death date | 2016-09-28 |
| Place of birth | Chicago (Ill.) |
| Place of death | Rosemont (Pa.) |
| Field of activity | Radio soap operas Television soap operas |
| Affiliation | Northwestern University (Evanston, Ill.) |
| Profession or occupation | Radio writers Television writers Television producers and directors |
| Found in | The Manions of America, 1997: credits (Agnes Nixon) Intl. motion picture almanac, 1997 (Nixon, Agnes, Dec. 10, 1927, Nashville; writer, producer) Northwestern University finding aid, Agnes Nixon Papers, 1941-2013 (Agnes Eckhardt Nixon was born on December 10, 1922 in Chicago, Illinois; she was raised by her mother and grandmother in Nashville; upon graduation from St. Cecilia High School in Nashville, Nixon attended St. Mary's College in South Bend, Indiana for two years before transferring to Northwestern University in fall of 1942; upon graduation from Northwestern in 1944, Nixon began writing radio plays; wrote for numerous radio serials during the 1940s-50s, and created the long-running soap television operas, One Life to Live and All My Children) Ancestry.com, Cook County, Ill. birth certificates index, 1871-1922, July 9, 2014 (Agnes Eckhardt; b. 10 Dec. 1922, Chicago, Ill.) New York times WWW site, viewed Sept. 29, 2016 (in obituary published Sept. 28: Agnes Nixon; b. Agnes Eckhardt, Dec. 10, 1922, Chicago; her parents were separated when she was an infant; she and her mother moved to Nashville; m. Robert Henry Nixon, 1951 (d. 1996); d. Wednesday [Sept. 28, 2016], Rosemont, Pa., aged 93; celebrated creator and writer of television soap operas) |
| Associated language | eng |
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