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Name
  
Maggie Lettvin

Role
  
Writer

Spouse
  
Jerome Lettvin (m. 1947)


Maggie Lettvin 1974 Press Photo Maggie Lettvin Writer Promoter Exercise Health

Books
  
The beautiful machine, Maggie's back book

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Margaret B. Lettvin is an American writer and promoter of exercise and health. She was known in the Boston area in the 1970s for a PBS television show on WGBH-TV called Maggie and The Beautiful Machine, and a book based on the show. After a serious car accident, she developed a set of exercises for back pain, which became Maggie's Back Book (ISBN 0395251478).

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She is the widow of MIT professor Jerry Lettvin, with whom she served as houseparent of the MIT Bexley dorm.

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Books

  • Lettvin, Maggie (1974). The Beautiful Machine. New York: Ballantine Books. ISBN 0-345242-53-X. 
  • Lettvin, Maggie (1976). Maggie's Back Book: Healing the Hurt in Your Lower Back. Boston: Houghton Mifflin. ISBN 0-395248-98-1. 
  • Lettvin, Maggie (1980). Maggie's Woman's Book: Her Personal Plan for Health and Fitness for Women of Every Age. Boston: Houghton Mifflin. ISBN 0-395294-72-X. 
  • Lettvin, Maggie (1987). Maggie's Food Strategy Book: Taking Charge of Your Diet for Lifelong Health and Vitality. Boston: Houghton Mifflin. ISBN 0-395379-83-0. 

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