found: The Manions of America, 1997:credits (Agnes Nixon)
found: Intl. motion picture almanac, 1997(Nixon, Agnes, Dec. 10, 1927, Nashville; writer, producer)
found: 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)
found: Ancestry.com, Cook County, Ill. birth certificates index, 1871-1922, July 9, 2014(Agnes Eckhardt; b. 10 Dec. 1922, Chicago, Ill.)
found: 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)
