Mary Randolph Carter, (but you can call her "Carter") was born in Richmond, Virginia, but has lived in New York City for much longer. Her first book American Family Style was published in 1988. Since then, she has not strayed far from her path of Junk writing four book on the subject--American Junk, Garden Junk, Kitchen Junk and Big City Junk.Her more recent books celebrate her love of old things and how to live with them happily ever after--For the Love of Old, A Perfectly Kept House is The Sign of A Misspent Life and her newest--Never Stop To Think...Do I Have A Place For This? Carter has worked for Ralph Lauren for 25 years and recently started a monthly column for Country Living Magazine. In her spare time she is on the endless Hunt for more and more Junk. The oldest of nine--seven girls and two boys, her mother always told her to marry an unselfish man. She did! Howard Berg and she have been married 43 years, and all he ever asked for was one comfortable chair among her stuff. Her biggest treasure? Their two sons--Carter and Sam.(Find me on Facebook and Pinterest as Mary Randolph Carter and visit my website at Carterjunk.com)