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  2. Her father, Chapin Carpenter Jr., was an executive for Life magazine. [3] When she was 12 years old, the family moved to Tokyo, Japan, and lived there for about two years, as her father was looking to begin an Asian edition of Life. [4] Her mother, Mary Bowie Robertson, [5] was a folk music singer and guitarist.

  3. Oct 3, 2012 · In 2007, she suffered a life-threatening pulmonary embolism, her marriage ended soon after and, in the fall of 2011, her father died. After those experiences, she tells NPR's Neal Conan, grief ...

  4. Sep 1, 2010 · Carpenter, 52, was born in Princeton and moved to Tokyo in 1969 when her father, Chapin Carpenter, a Life executive, was sent to the Asia bureau. The family relocated to Washington when she was 15, and she returned here after graduating from Brown in 1981.

  5. Father, Chapin Carpenter, was a high-level Life magazine executive, so she spent her youth in Princeton, Tokyo, and Washington,DC. In the spring of 2007 the singer suffered from a pulmonary embolism, a serious condition that temporarily brought her career to a sudden halt.

    • February 21, 1958
  6. Aug 16, 2012 · Old age ain’t for sissies, the saying goes. But middle age is hardly a breeze either. It can be a time marked by the death of parents, illness and divorce. Mary Chapin Carpenter has lived thr…

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  8. Jun 25, 2010 · "We've got two lives, one we're given, the other one we make," Mary Chapin Carpenter sang on Come On Come On, her 1992 breakthrough album. For her, that estimate was too conservative --- three years ago, a pulmonary embolism nearly killed her. Seasons of doctors followed, and medicine and rest.

  9. May 4, 2016 · Carpenter, who was born in Princeton, N.J., was named for both of her parents: She and her mother share a first name, while her father's name was Chapin Carpenter Jr. (Carpenter Jr....