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“I’m the product of two women’s institutions,” Piper Kerman ’92 told an audience in John M. Greene Hall on Thursday: Smith and federal prison. For the next two hours, Kerman, author of the memoir ...

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Taylor Schilling plays Piper in Netflix's Orange Is the New Black, which is based on Piper Kerman's memoir of her year in prison. Piper Kerman was a 24-year-old Smith College graduate in 1993, when ...