“I really hoped that someone would read it other than my mother-in-law’s book club,” she said to lots of laughs at the Westerville gathering. Years later, Kerman was sentenced to 15 months in federal prison, eventually writing her memoir, Orange Is the New Black: My Year in a Women’s Prison, which was published in 2010. She talked about that experience on Tuesday night and explained how she wound up in prison in the first place.Īfter growing up in New England, Kerman graduated from Smith College and met a woman who persuaded her to transport drug money in the early 1990s. Kerman and her husband, Larry Smith, moved from New York to Columbus’ Victorian Village neighborhood in January so she could teach writing classes at the Marion Correctional Institution and the Ohio Reformatory for Women in Marysville. “After about six months, I'm getting used to saying ‘home in Ohio.’ ” ”It is nice to be home in Ohio,” Kerman said to applause. Kerman, 45, was happy to share with Haury and the hundreds of other people who gathered at Westerville Central High School for a sold-out event in Westerville Public Library’s “Meet the Authors” series.

“I just wanted to see her in person and hear her story,” said Haury, 70, of Johnstown. On Tuesday night, she drove to Westerville to listen to a talk by Piper Kerman, a recent Columbus transplant whose memoir inspired the show. Like plenty of other fans of Orange Is the New Black, Barbara Haury can hardly wait for the third season of the Netflix prison drama to come out on June 12.īut in the meantime, Haury found another way to sate her Orange craving.

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