My Life To Live by Agnes Nixon

My latest review for Blogging For Books is My Life To Live by Agnes Nixon.

  It's hard to imagine a world without soaps, they've done some much over the years to bring entertainment to the airwaves and generations of women who grew up watching the stories unfold. Agnes Nixon was creator of One Life To Live and All My Children. I was not very familiar with her before reading the book, I rarely  think about the people behind the scenes of these shows. But Agnes Nixon brought issues to light in soaps at a time when people wouldn't otherwise be seeing or discussing these things.
  Agnes's early life had a little drama in it. The biography tries to show some stress between her and her father, but it doesn't sound like a terribly bad relationship, he was a bit controlling but he did support her at times. There was more drama involved with the loss of her college sweetheart, but beyond that her personal life sounded pretty good and not really soap opera-like.
 The book is at it's best when she's discussing her soaps and their plots and her relationships with the actors. I really loved her little vignette at the end of the book that she wrote in college called "No Flags Flying" . You don't want to skip it.