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Calvin Fixx (Calvin Henry Fix) was born on 1 August, 1906 in Lyman, Idaho, US, is an American journalist. Discover Calvin Fixx's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 44 years old?

Popular As Calvin Henry Fix
Occupation Editor, journalist, writer
Age 44 years old
Zodiac Sign Leo
Born 1 August, 1906
Birthday 1 August
Birthplace Lyman, Idaho, US
Date of death 1950
Died Place Atlantic City, New Jersey, US
Nationality Idaho

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Who Is Calvin Fixx's Wife?

His wife is Marlys Virginia Fuller Fixx (1906–2004)

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Wife Marlys Virginia Fuller Fixx (1906–2004)
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Children 2, including Jim Fixx

Calvin Fixx Net Worth

His net worth has been growing significantly in 2023-2024. So, how much is Calvin Fixx worth at the age of 44 years old? Calvin Fixx’s income source is mostly from being a successful journalist. He is from Idaho. We have estimated Calvin Fixx's net worth, money, salary, income, and assets.

Net Worth in 2024 $1 Million - $5 Million
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1906

Calvin Fixx, born Calvin Henry Fix (August 1, 1906 – March 3, 1950), was an American journalist and editor, lifelong friend of Robert Cantwell and friend of Whittaker Chambers, both fellow editors at Time magazine.

Calvin Fixx was born Calvin Henry Fix in Lyman, Idaho, on August 1, 1906, the son of Henry Martin Fix (1883–1971) and Maggie Priscilla Smith Fix (1888–1958).

He had two brothers, Ford and Harley, and a sister, Georgia.

He attended high school in Aberdeen, Washington, where he began a lifelong friendship with Robert Cantwell.

He attended business school in Aberdeen briefly.

Cantwell and Fixx dreamed of "escaping to New York".

1920

All three were either Marxist or communist during the 1920s and 1930s and then became anti-communists by 1939.

1927

In 1927, Fixx hitchhiked cross-country to New York City.

He took a part-time job in a Greenwich Village bookshop and wrote freelance book reviews.

He took other jobs, such as secretary to author Lyle Saxon.

At this time, he added a second "x" to his surname because, he said, "a verb cannot be a name."

He began to act informally as Cantwell's agent and helped him publish his first major short story.

1929

In 1929, he encouraged Robert Cantwell to come to New York City and they shared a flat in Greenwich Village.

1930

On October 31, 1930, Fixx married Marlys Virginia Fuller (1906–2004) of Detroit, Michigan, a graduate of the 1929 class at Northwestern University.

They lived at 3328 81 Street, Jackson Heights, Queens, New York.

According to Robert Fitzgerald, Fixx was a Mormon.

Fixx's wife Marlys was Anglican.

After his death, she worked at Oberlin College as house mother/director of May Cottage.

When son Jim Fixx died, he left his estate to her, worth several million dollars.

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 style was still very hokey—"backward ran sentences till reeled the mind"—but I could tell, even as a neophyte, who had written each of the pieces in the magazine, because each of these writers had such a distinctive voice.

Fixx's death at age 43 profoundly affected his close friends.

His death helped take away all motivation in Cantwell to write.

In his memoir, Chambers described Fixx as "my closest friend at Time. Chambers recorded the death in a letter to another friend: This morning, at 7 o'clock, died the friend who knew most about me, a man on whom I built an absolute trust, and to whose wisdom, patience, courage, and humility I constantly repaired–Calvin Fixx. Chambers took his son John to Fixx's funeral.

Fixx was in charge of novelist Sloan Wilson when Wilson joined Time.

1936

In 1936, he joined Time with Robert Cantwell, Robert Fitzgerald, and James Agee.

1939

In early 1939, Fitzgerald resigned.

In April 1939, Chambers was hired by Henry Luce, and Fixx joined Chambers in the Books section.

1940

In 1940, William Saroyan lists Fixx among "contributing editors" at Time in Saroyan's play, Love's Old Sweet Song.

1942

In October 1942, while working in Time's "Back of the Book" section with Chambers, Fixx suffered a "severe heart attack", most probably brought on by the routine he and Chambers had adopted of "work[ing] a day and a half nonstop, stimulating themselves with six packs of cigarettes and a continual stream of coffee".

Luce gave him a year's leave and salary to recover.

(Wilder Hobson succeeded Fixx as assistant editor of Books.) Chambers also suffered a heart attack a month later and also went on leave.

(Allen Weinstein notes that the FBI had visited Chambers in May 1942 to question him about his communist activities. )

1943

Upon Fixx's return, in 1943, he gave up editorial work for "special projects" (as did Chambers).

He also worked in the public relations department.

1950

Calvin Fixx died age 43 on March 3, 1950, of a second heart attack, in an Atlantic City hospital.

Surviving him were his wife, both parents, son James, daughter Catherine, brothers Ford and Harley, and sister Georgia.

1984

His son, Jim Fixx, would also die of a heart attack, at the age of 52 in 1984.

Fixx is buried in Carmel, New York, in the Loudonsville Cemetery, in Putnam County, New York.