Trivia

She becames ABC's overall daytime consultant (October 2000)

It was her hand that opened the All My Children (1970) photo album on the shows opening montage sequence from 1970-1989.

When she went into labor and had to go to the hospital to deliver one of her children she brought her Dictaphone along so that she could continue working.

During the 1960s she simultaneously wrote both Guiding Light (1952) & Another World (1964). This led to a few minor problems such as in the 445th episode of Another World (1964) she wrote in the script that the scene takes place "in the coffee shop of Cedar's Hospital" - Cedar's Hospital is the fictional hospital on Guiding Light (1952).

Her classmates at Northwestern University included Cloris Leachman, Paul Lynde, Charlotte Rae, Charlton Heston, Martha Hyer and Patricia Neal.

Elected as a Governor on the board of the New York Chapter of the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences in the Writing category. Her term is set to last 2 years. (2006)

Her classmates at the Drama Department of Northwestern University included Charlton Heston, Martha Hyer, Patricia Neal and Cloris Leachman.

According to Ms. Nixon's memoir, while she was writing the daytime soap opera, Guiding Light (1952), in the early-1960s, she wrote a story-line surrounding early detection of uterine cancer with a Pap test after she lost a friend to cancer. Executives of the show were outraged, but Nixon stood her ground. She was eventually granted permission to write the story-line, but was forbidden from using the words cancer, uterus or hysterectomy in her scripts. The story, one the first involving cancer on television, resonated with millions of women, who, after watching the show, scheduled Pap tests.

Aunt of Catherine McCabe.

Mother-in-law of Sarah Guinan-Nixon.

Mother of Robert Nixon.

Her memoir, My Life to Live: How I Became the Queen of Soaps When Men Ruled the Airwaves, was released March 21, 2017.

Graduated in 1944 from Northwestern University (Evanston, IL).

Her first job in radio was writing and producing the soap opera "The Woman In White".