Tonight, Piper Kerman, author of the New York Times bestselling memoir Orange is the New Black: My Year in a Women’s Prison—now a popular Netflix original series entering its third season—speaks in Bend tonight as part of the Deschutes Public Library Foundation’s Author! Author! series. I chatted with Kerman for a profile in this week’s […]
Piper Kerman
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Serving Time, Serving Truth
“Orange is the New Black” author Piper Kerman speaks in Bend
After graduating with a theater degree from an elite women’s college in the early 1990s, Piper Kerman was looking for excitement. She found it in a girlfriend who took her to exotic locales across the globe—and just happened to smuggle drugs. When Kerman’s relatively minor role in those illicit transactions caught up with her a […]
