MARY SCHMICH
Name: Mary Theresa Schmich
Born in Savannah, Georgia, the oldest of eight children, Schmich grew up in
Georgia, 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. She has worked
as a reporter at the Peninsula Times Tribune, at the Orlando Sentinel and, since
1985, at the Tribune. She spent five years as a Tribune national correspondent
based in Atlanta.
Her column started in 1992 and was interrupted for a year during which she
attended Harvard on a Nieman Fellowship for journalists.
In addition to writing her column, Schmich is also the current author of the
long-lived comic strip Brenda Starr and has worked as a professional barrelhouse
and ragtime piano player.
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.
Name: Mary Theresa Schmich
Born in Savannah, Georgia, the oldest of eight children, Schmich grew up in
Georgia, 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. She has worked
as a reporter at the Peninsula Times Tribune, at the Orlando Sentinel and, since
1985, at the Tribune. She spent five years as a Tribune national correspondent
based in Atlanta.
Her column started in 1992 and was interrupted for a year during which she
attended Harvard on a Nieman Fellowship for journalists.
In addition to writing her column, Schmich is also the current author of the
long-lived comic strip Brenda Starr and has worked as a professional barrelhouse
and ragtime piano player.
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.