Maggie Lettvin

Margaret B. Lettvin is an American writer and promoter of exercise and health.^[1] She was locally famous in the Boston, Massachusetts area in the 1970s for a television show called Maggie and The Beautiful Machine,^[2] and a book based on the show. After a serious, debilitating car accident, she developed a set of exercises for back pain, which became Maggie's Back Book (ISBN 0395251478).

She is the widow of MIT professor Jerry Lettvin.

References

1. ^ John Underwood (May 26, 1975). "Beating Their Brains Out". Sports Illustrated. http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/vault/article/magazine/MAG1089885/5/index.htm. Retrieved 24 May 2011. "In the wrestling and fencing rooms, faculty and students submitted themselves to Maggie Lettvin for overhauls. Maggie is svelte, black-haired and 48, "The Beautiful Machine" of Boston educational television. Her roly-poly husband is an MIT biology and electrical engineering professor." 
2. ^ "WGBH Program list — to 2000". WGBHalumni.org. http://wgbhalumni.org/2000/01/01/wgbh-programs-to-2000/. Retrieved 2011-05-24. 

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