Margaret DePriest Dead: ‘General Hospital,’ ‘Days of Our Lives’ Writer Was 94

Margaret DePriest, a onetime actress who spent three decades as a pioneering head writer on such soap operas as General Hospital , Days of Our Lives , All My Children and Another World , has died. She was 94.

DePriest died Sept. 29 of natural causes at her home in Greenwich Village, her daughter, Sara Kimbell, told The Hollywood Reporter .

DePriest had starred in soap operas as Abby Cameron on CBS’ The Edge of Night and as the social worker Mrs. Berger on NBC’s The Doctors when she and her mentor Lou Scofield created the CBS daytime drama Where the Heart Is in 1969. (Network execs at the time praised her for “writing like a man,” Kimbell noted.)

Margaret DePriest, a onetime actress who spent three decades as a pioneering head writer on such soap operas as Gener