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Mary Schmich was born on 29 November, 1953 in Savannah, Georgia, U.S., is an American journalist (born 1953). Discover Mary Schmich's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is she in this year and how she spends money? Also learn how she earned most of networth at the age of 70 years old?

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Occupation Journalist
Age 70 years old
Zodiac Sign Sagittarius
Born 29 November 1953
Birthday 29 November
Birthplace Savannah, Georgia, U.S.
Nationality United States

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1940

The long-lived comic strip, set in Chicago, was created by Dale Messick for the Chicago Tribune Syndicate in 1940.

1953

Mary Theresa Schmich (born November 29, 1953) is an American journalist.

1980

Messick continued to the early 1980s; Schmich was the third and final writer, working with the second and third artists.

She has also worked as a professional barrelhouse and ragtime piano player.

About four times a year for some years, Schmich and fellow Tribune metro columnist Eric Zorn wrote a week of columns that consisted of a back-and-forth exchange of letters.

1985

She has worked as a reporter at the Palo Alto Peninsula Times Tribune, the Orlando Sentinel and since 1985 at the Tribune, where she was a national correspondent based in Atlanta for five years.

From 1985 Schmich was the writer of Brenda Starr, Reporter until its final appearance in January 2011.

1992

She was a columnist for the Chicago Tribune from 1992 to 2021, winning the Pulitzer Prize in 2012.

Her columns were syndicated nationally by Tribune Content Agency.

Her column started in 1992 and was interrupted for a year when she attended Harvard on a Nieman Fellowship for journalists.

1997

She wrote the comic strip Brenda Starr, Reporter for the last 28 of its 60 years and she wrote the 1997 column 'Advice, like youth, probably just wasted on the young', with the often quoted "Do one thing every day that scares you", frequently misattributed to Eleanor Roosevelt.

The article is often referred to as, 'Wear Sunscreen'.

Born in Savannah, Georgia, the oldest of eight children, Schmich spent her childhood in Georgia.

She attended high school in Phoenix, Arizona, and earned a B.A. from Pomona College.

After working in college admissions for three years and spending a year and a half in France, Schmich attended journalism school at Stanford.

Schmich's June 1, 1997, column began with the injunction to wear sunscreen, and continued with discursive advice for living without regret.

In her introduction to the column, she described it as the commencement address she would give if she were asked to give one.

The column was circulated around the Internet, with an erroneous claim that it was a commencement address by Kurt Vonnegut, usually at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and the misattribution became a news item when Vonnegut was contacted by reporters to comment.

He told The New York Times, "What she wrote was funny, wise and charming, so I would have been proud had the words been mine."

Schmich's June 1, 1997, column (as well as the Baz Luhrmann song based on it) includes the sentence:

"'Do one thing every day that scares you.'"

This statement is notable because it is Schmich's original work, and yet frequently misattributed to Eleanor Roosevelt.

1998

In 1998, Schmich published the column as a book, Wear Sunscreen.

1999

Each December since 1999, Schmich and Zorn have hosted the "Songs of Good Cheer" holiday caroling parties at the Old Town School of Folk Music to raise money for the Tribune Holiday Fund charities.

In 1999, Baz Luhrmann released a song called "Everybody's Free (To Wear Sunscreen)" in which this column is read word for word as written by Schmich, who gave permission and receives royalties.

This song was a number one hit in several countries.

2011

Schmich won the annual Pulitzer Prize for Commentary, recognizing 2011 work with the Tribune, citing "her wide range of down-to-earth columns that reflect the character and capture the culture of her famed city."

2020

On December 18, 2020, because of the COVID-19 pandemic, Schmich and Zorn held a virtual streaming event that was livecast over YouTube.