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'Orange Is The New Black' Author Coming to Sonoma State Nov. 18

Piper Kerman will give a lecture at Sonoma State University later this month.

The woman whose brief stint in a Connecticut women's prison spurred a book and an acclaimed Netflix series is coming to Sonoma County later this month.

Piper Kerman, the author of the book "Orange is the New Black" will speak at Sonoma State University Nov. 18.

At the time of this writing, tickets for her event are nearly sold out, according to the university's website.

"Piper Kerman's memoir recounts the 15 months she spent in the Danbury Correctional Facility for a crime she had committed ten years prior as a very brief, very careless dalliance in the world of drug trafficking," Sonoma State's website states. "In 2013, her memoir was adapted into an original Netflix series and was heralded by the Washington Post as 'the best TV show about prison ever made.' "

Kerman now advocates for justice reform.

"Harshly punitive drug laws and diminishing community mental health resources have landed many women in prison who simply do not belong there, often for shockingly long sentences," she wrote in an August op-ed in the New York Times

Tickets to the Nov. 18 event are $15, and Sonoma State students get in free. Tickets are available at https://tickets.sonoma.edu/Online/.

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