Jim Fixx Jim Fixx James Fuller "Jim" Fixx (April 23, 1932 – July 20, 1984) was an American who wrote the 1977 best-selling book "The Complete Book of Running". He is credited with helping start America's fitness revolution, popularizing the sport of running and demonstrating the health benefits of regular jogging. He died of a heart attack while jogging at 52 years of age. His genetic predisposition for heart problems and other previous lifestyle factors may have caused his heart attack. Born in New York City, Fixx was a graduate of Trinity School in New York and Oberlin College in Ohio. His
Calvin Fixx Putnam County, New York. Buried with him are his wife, son and grandparents. Fixx, close colleagues, and many staff members as of the 1930s helped elevate "TIME"–"interstitial intellectuals," as historian Robert Vanderlan has called them. Colleague and best-selling author John Hersey described them as follows: "Time" was in an interesting phase; an editor named Tom Matthews had gathered a brilliant group of writers, including James Agee, Robert Fitzgerald, Whittaker Chambers, Robert Cantwell, Louis Kronenberger, and Calvin Fixx... They were dazzling. "Time"'s style was still very hokey—"backward ran sentences till reeled the mind"—but I could tell, even as a neophyte, who