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 John to Fixx's funeral. Fixx was in charge of novelist Sloan Wilson when Wilson joined "TIME". In the 1930s during the Popular Front years, Fixx was either a member of the CPUSA or supportive of Marxism. By 1939 with the Hitler-Stalin Pact, he started toward Anti-Communism, following Cantwell and Chambers. In 1939, the triumvirate (Fixx, Cantwell, Chambers) challenged the Communist-controlled "Time" chapter of the Newspaper Guild by making a motion to send aid to Loyalists (Republicans) in the Spanish Civil War at a time, following the Hitler-Stalin Pact, Communists supported Nationalist (Falangists): they were defeated 42 to 3. During the