Recorded at Peter Gabriel's Real World Studios and produced by Josh Kaufman (member of Muzz and Bonny Light Horseman and former producer of The National, Bob Weir, and The Hold Steady), Mary Chapin Carpenter's 2025 album Personal History" is an autobiographical work that the American country folk singer-songwriter from Princeton, New Jersey, wrote inspired by a sentence in Elizabeth Strout's 2016 novel "My Name Is Lucy Barton", according to which writers have a single story to tell in many different ways.