# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/mary-schmich
# Generated: 2026-08-13T23:38:10.884Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/mary-schmich"
name: "Mary Schmich"
slug: "mary-schmich"
description: "Mary Theresa Schmich is an American journalist. 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. She wrote the comic strip Brenda Starr, Reporter for the last 28 of its 60 years and she wrote the 1997 column Wear Sunscreen. The line \"Do one thing every day that scares you\" from the column has frequently been misattributed to Eleanor Roosevelt."
tagline: "American columnist"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Journalists"
  slug: "journalists"
profileType:
  name: "Journalist"
  slug: "journalist"
birthDate: "1953-11-29"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           49.98
  momentum:             4.778585334198572
  historical:           10.60533333333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "X"
    url:       "https://x.com/MarySchmich"
    handle:    "MarySchmich"
sources:
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    title: "MusicBrainz"
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    title: "مارى شميتش"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Mary Schmich"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Schmich"
    title: "Mary Schmich"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Schmich"
    title: "Mary Schmich"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Schmich"
    title: "Mary Schmich"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Schmich"
    title: "Mary Schmich"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Schmich"
    title: "Mary Schmich"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://cs.wikiquote.org/wiki/Mary_Schmichov%C3%A1"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Mary_Schmich"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://ig.wikiquote.org/wiki/Mary_Schmich"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://it.wikiquote.org/wiki/Mary_Schmich"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://nl.wikiquote.org/wiki/Mary_Schmich"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6780687"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump