- Daughter of Dixie Carter.
- Sister of Ginna Carter.
- Stepdaughter of Hal Holbrook.
- Younger stepsister of David Holbrook.
- She attended Harvard University, which is where she met her husband Steve Kempf, who was student there. Her husband eventually earned three degrees at Harvard before the age of 30: BA, MBA, and JD.
- Her husband Steve Kempf and his brother Don co-founded Giant Screen Films in Evanston, Illinois. It's a company that specializes in producing and distributing Imax and other large-format films.
- She has written articles for her father's newspaper "The New York Observer", as well as "Time" magazine, "The Economist", "San Francisco Chronicle", "Chicago Tribune", "Philadelphia Inquirer" and other publications.
- She has three elder half-siblings from her father's first marriage: Jon, Wendy, and Ellen. She and her sister Ginna are from her father's second marriage to Dixie Carter.
- Her mother's maiden name is Carter, and her father's last name is also Carter, and this caused confusion in her life, where she had to explain to people that her parents weren't cousins. Her great uncle on her father's side had changed his Hungarian surname from Kardos, which means swordsman, to Carter and the rest of the New York family followed his example.
- Her stepsister is actress Ali Marsh. Ali's mother is Dr. Linda Carter. Linda has been married to Mary-Dixie's father Arthur Carter since 1980.
- She has two children with her husband, Steve Kempf.
- Her father is Arthur Carter, publisher and owner of "The New York Observer".
- At one time, she was the advertising sales representative and a publishing director of her father's newspaper, "The New York Observer".
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