Got an e-mail yesterday about a local author named Randy Schmidt who's written a book about Karen Carpenter, Little Girl Blue. The book, from the very reputable Chicago Review Press, isn't officially ...

Anorexia had become a tyrannical force in Karen’s psyche, telling her that food was an enemy to be fought. Thoughts of food and the methods to eliminate it had become obsessive, dominating her day and ...

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He was born after their early-1970s heyday, but it didn’t take Randy Schmidt long to catch up with the Carpenters. Schmidt, now an elementary school music teacher in Denton, remembers being entranced ...

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Karen Anne Carpenter (March 2, 1950 – February 4, 1983) was an American singer and drummer who was part of the duo the Carpenters alongside her older brother ...