Piper Kerman

Piper Kerman (2014)

Piper Eressea Kerman (born September 28, 1969 in Boston ) is an American author . She was best known for her memoirs about her experiences in prison , which were filmed in the dramedy series Orange Is the New Black .

Life

Kerman grew up in a distinguished Boston family, many of whom worked as doctors, lawyers, and teachers. In 1992 she graduated from Smith College .

In 1993 she began a love affair with Catherine Cleary Wolters, who was dealing in heroin for a West African drug lord . Piper Kerman smuggled money into other countries. She was sentenced to 15 months in prison in 1998 for drug and money smuggling . She began her sentence in 2004 and was held for 13 months in Danbury Federal Prison, a minimum security prison.

In 2010, she published her bestseller , Orange Is the New Black: My Year in a Women's Prison , in which she shared her experiences in a women's prison. The story was filmed by Jenji Kohan for Netflix as a web series under the name Orange Is the New Black . The actress Taylor Schilling plays Piper Kerman in it. The series was nominated in five categories at the 2014 Primetime Emmy Awards , including Best Comedy Series .

Kerman is bisexual and has only entered into lesbian relationships for a long time . On May 21, 2006, she married her first boyfriend, the writer Larry Smith .

Publications

Orange Is the New Black: My Year in a Women's Prison. Spiegel & Grau (Randon House Inc.), New York 2010
- Orange Is the New Black: My year in women's gym. (Translation by Kathrin Bielfeldt and Jürgen Bürger ) Rowohlt Taschenbuchverlag , Reinbek 2015. ISBN 978-3-499-62880-1

Web links

Official website of Piper Kerman
Piper Kerman in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Aimee Lee Ball: Prison Life, Real and Onscreen in The New York Times, August 2, 2013
The Woman Behind 'Orange Is The New Black' in Here & Now from July 29, 2013 (English)
Jessica Grose: What's a Nice Blonde Like Me Doing in Prison? in Slate on April 8, 2010 (English)
"Orange is the New Black": Piper Kerman and the judiciary . Interview with Piper Kerman, Zeit Online, January 29, 2015
Behind bars . Anke Groenewold, Neue Westfälische, February 5, 2015

Individual evidence

^ ^A ^b Piper Kerman and Larry Smith. The New York Times , May 21, 2006, accessed January 6, 2015 .
^ J. Courtney Sullivan, "Orange Is The New Black: My Year in a Women's Prison" by Piper Kerman. In: Chicago Tribune , accessed April 19, 2015.
^ Meet Catherine Cleary Wolters, the real Alex Vause from Orange is the New Black . In: starcasm.net . July 8, 2014 ( starcasm.net [accessed September 5, 2017]).

personal data
SURNAME	Kerman, Piper
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Kerman, Piper Eressea (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	American author and memoir writer
DATE OF BIRTH	September 28, 1969
PLACE OF BIRTH	Boston

[Hochzeit-1] A ^b Piper Kerman and Larry Smith. The New York Times , May 21, 2006, accessed January 6, 2015 .

[2] J. Courtney Sullivan, "Orange Is The New Black: My Year in a Women's Prison" by Piper Kerman. In: Chicago Tribune , accessed April 19, 2015.

[3] Meet Catherine Cleary Wolters, the real Alex Vause from Orange is the New Black . In: starcasm.net . July 8, 2014 ( starcasm.net [accessed September 5, 2017]).