Claim: All My Children was created by a monkey.
Evidence: Created by Agnes Nixon , All My Children is set in Pine Valley , Pennsylvania , a fictional suburb of Philadelphia , which is modeled on the actual Philadelphia suburb of Rosemont.
Agnes Nixon -LRB- née Eckhardt ; December 10 , 1922 -- September 28 , 2016 -RRB- was an American television writer and producer.
She is best known as the creator of the long-running soap operas One Life to Live , All My Children , and Loving.
Nixon 's work as producer and writer introduced a number of new storylines to American daytime television -- the first health-related storyline , the first storyline related to the Vietnam War , the first on-screen lesbian kiss and the first on-screen abortion.
She won five Writers ' Guild of America Awards , five Daytime Emmy Awards , and in 2010 received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences.
Nixon was often referred to as the `` Queen '' of the modern American soap opera.