(They were married a year after her release. Smith, founder and editor of the SMITH website and the Six-Word Memoir book series, says it never crossed his mind to leave Kerman during the long ordeal. Those were bad times - but a good book in the making. Despite pleading guilty fairly quick, a series of legal entanglements kept her out of prison until 2004, more than a decade after the crime. In 1998, customs agents rang her West Village apartment with news of an indictment for money laundering and drug trafficking. There she met Smith, eventually fell in love, and moved with him to New York.
Kerman later came to her senses and started over in San Francisco. Kerman didn’t smuggle drugs, but she did help launder money for the operation, once moving over $10,000 from Chicago to Brussels.
In 1993, soon after graduating from Smith College, the reserved Bostonian got entangled in a romantic relationship with Nora, “an impossibly stylish” lesbian who happened to run smack for a West African kingpin. She spent eleven months in the Federal Correctional Institution located on the edge of the Western Connecticut city. “I see a reading here,” joked Smith, referring to Orange Is the New Black, Kerman’s forthcoming memoir about how a dalliance with heroin trafficking landed her in prison a decade after the fact.ĭanbury does not excite Kerman as a target market, perhaps because it is the primary setting for Orange. Larry Smith and Piper Kerman recently drove past a Barnes & Noble in Danbury, Connecticut, about 80 miles northeast of their home in Brooklyn.
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