Randy L. Schmidt is the author of the critically acclaimed Little Girl Blue: The Life of Karen Carpenter, a New York Times Editor’s Choice and Wall Street Journal bestseller. His latest publication is Dolly on Dolly: Interviews and Encounters with Dolly Parton, a title in the Musicians in Their Own Words series from Chicago Review Press. He also compiled and edited Yesterday Once More: The Carpenters Reader and Judy Garland on Judy Garland: Interviews and Encounters. Schmidt has served as creative consultant for several television documentaries on the Carpenters, including the E! True Hollywood Story, A&E’s Biography, and VH1’s Behind the Music. More recently, he contributed to Karen Carpenter: Goodbye to Love and Autopsy: The Last Hours of Karen Carpenter, both produced for ITV in the United Kingdom and Reelz TV in the United States. A music educator for more than twenty years, Schmidt teaches elementary music in Denton, Texas.