Interview: Piper Kerman, Author Of 'Orange Is The New Black' : NPR

Interview: Piper Kerman, Author Of 'Orange Is The New Black' : NPR:

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"Piper Kerman was a 24-year-old Smith College graduate in 1993, when she flew to Belgium with a suitcase of money intended for a West African drug lord.

This misguided adventure started when she began a romantic relationship with a woman who was part of what Kerman describes as a "clique of impossibly stylish and cool lesbians in their mid-30s." That woman was involved in a drug-smuggling ring, and got Kerman involved, too, though Kerman left that life after several months.

Five years later, Kerman was named as part of the drug ring and, in February 2004, she reported to the Federal Correctional Institution in Danbury, Conn.


Orange Is the New Black
My Year in a Women's Prison
by Piper Kerman

Paperback, 327 pages purchase
nonfiction

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The new Netflix series Orange Is the New Black is based on Kerman's memoir of the same name about her year in that minimum-security women's prison."

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