5/9/2023 0 Comments Orange is the new black author![]() ![]() ![]() Five years later, federal agents appeared at her door with an indictment. In 1993, she was asked to carry a bag of money from Chicago to Brussels. Her book is also the basis for a hit television series on Netflix.Ī graduate of Smith College, Kerman told the crowd of 1,020 in Kresge Auditorium how she left college without a plan ("I really didn't have a clue what my next step would be") and wound up in a relationship with a drug dealer. Kerman, who served 13 months in a minimum security federal prison, discussed "Lessons Learned Behind Bars" in a Timothy and Sharon Ubben Lecture. "And to do that, I simply tried to paint a picture of what is it like to live your life, day to day, in a prison. "What I simply tried to do was to invite the reader to step into my shoes or to step into the shoes of one of the other women who is depicted in the book," Piper Kerman, author of the bestselling memoir, Orange Is the New Black: My Year in a Woman's Prison, told an audience at DePauw University tonight. ![]()
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