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JOHNSON CITY, Tenn. (WJHL) – East Tennessee State University (ETSU) will host Piper Kerman, author of the bestselling memoir “Orange is the New Black: My Year in a Women’s Prison,” at its Festival of ...

— Piper Kerman Largely privileged as a Boston youth, she had “never even thought” about the larger sociopolitical context of drug policies when she carried that drug money. “I’d never thought about ...

JOHNSON CITY, Tenn. (WJHL) — The author of “Orange is the New Black: My Year in a Women`s Prison” spoke at East Tennessee State University on Thursday as part of the university’s Festival of Ideas.

A design firm breaks out of television prison with close-ups of real women and former inmates for the Netflix hit. Move Over, Dove. “Orange Is The New Black” Celebrates Real Women A design firm breaks ...

Orange Is The New Black, everyone’s new favorite show, is based on a true story. Officer Porn-stache, Big Red the prison cook, and Piper Chapman, the sweet, yuppie purveyor of artisan bath ...

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 ...

On the C-SPAN Networks: Piper Kerman is an Author with eight videos in the C-SPAN Video Library; the first appearance was a 2010 Interview as a Prison Inmate. The year with the highest average number ...