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Mary Schmich is a columnist for the Chicago Tribune. She is also the current author of the long-lived comic strip Brenda Starr 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 Everybody's free (to wear sunscreen) 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.
Works *Wear Sunscreen (Andrews McMeel Publishing, 1998) ISBN 0836255283
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This article is licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License. It uses material from the Wikipedia article "Mary Schmich".
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