Quicknation Mary Schmich
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Quicknation Mary Schmich
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Mary Schmich and has worked as a professional barrelhouse and ragtime piano player. She is a graduate of Pomona College.
She is perhaps best known as the author of an amusing and discursive column, , that included an injunction to wear sunscreen. An Internet rumor erroneously stated that this column was a commencement address by Kurt Vonnegut at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Two years after the column was written in 1997, Baz Luhrmann released a song called in which this column is read word by word as written by Schmich. This song was a number one hit in several countries in 1999. About four times a year, Schmich and fellow Tribune metro columnist Eric Zorn write a week of columns that consist of a back-and-forth exchange of letters. Each December, Schmich and Zorn host 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. |
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