Orange Is the New Black: My Year in a Women's Prison

Orange Is the New Black: My Year in a Women's Prison
AuthorPiper Kerman
LanguageEnglish
GenreMemoir
PublishedApril 6, 2010
PublisherSpiegel & Grau
Publication placeUnited States
Pages327
ISBN978-0-812-98618-1

Orange Is the New Black: My Year in a Women's Prison (titled Orange Is the New Black: My Time in a Women's Prison in some editions) is a 2010 memoir by American author Piper Kerman, which tells the story of her money laundering and drug trafficking conviction and subsequent year spent in a federal women's prison.

The book served as the inspiration for the Netflix comedy-drama series Orange Is the New Black.