All My Children was made by a television writer and producer from the United States who passed away in 2016.
Agnes Nixon ( née Eckhardt ; December 10 , 1922 -- September 28 , 2016 ) was an American television writer and producer . All My Children . 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 . Rodney Dennis Humphries ( born 18 September 1943 ) is an Australian-born author , newspaper/magazine journalist and television writer .