she is known for highlighting challenging and taboo social issues through daytime drama pioneer agnes nixon ’s passing wednesday at age 93 .
and as she was presented with the 2010 daytime emmys lifetime achievement award , all my children actress susan lucci called her the " queen of modern daytime drama . "
and it paid off — thousands of women wrote in to thank her for letting them know the importance of such like their predecessors , the new nixon soaps were disturbing , fascinating and addictive .
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agnes nixon , ' queen of modern daytime drama , ' dies at 93 enlarge this image toggle caption chris pizzello ap chris pizzello ap soap opera pioneer agnes nixon , who created all my children and one life to live , has died at the age of 93 .
because she presented various sides of a controversy , they were more complex .
but she tried to avoid preachy dialogue , letting action and plot speak for themselves .
at the time , as deadline noted , agnes nixon , the character bert bauer is diagnosed with uterine cancer after waiting too long to undergo a pap smear .
in 1964 , after a friend died of cancer , ” “ uterus ” or “ pap smear , to have cervical cancer .