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The real-life Alex Vause from the critically acclaimed, top-rated Netflix show Orange Is the New Black tells her story in her own words for the first time - a powerful, surprising memoir about crime and punishment, friendship and marriage, and a life caught in the ruinous drug trade and beyond.Fans nationwide have fallen in love with Orange Is the New Black, the critically acclaimed and wildly popular Netflix show based on Piper Kerman's sensational #1 New York Times bestseller. Now, Catherine Cleary Wolters - the inspiration for Alex Vause, Piper's ex-girlfriend, friend, and sometimes-romantic partner on the show - tells her true story, offering details and insights that fill in the blanks, set the record straight, and answer common fan questions.An insightful, frustrating, heartbreaking, and uplifting analysis of crime and punishment in our times, Out of Orange is an intimate look at international drug crime - a seemingly glamorous lifestyle that dazzles unsuspecting young women and eventually leads them to the seedy world of prison.
About the Author
Cleary Wolters is the real-life inspiration for Laura Prepon's character Alex Vause in the award-winning Netflix series Orange Is the New Black (and Nora Jansen in Piper Kerman's bestselling memoir of the same name) .
During her six years in a Dublin, California prison for conspiracy to import heroin, Wolters wrote fiction and taught computer skills to fellow inmates. After she was was paroled, in 2008, she returned to her hometown of Cincinnati, Ohio and re-entered her profession of software engineering. In her spare time, she chronicled her journey from Catholic schoolgirl to drug smuggler to prisoner. Her memoir, Out of Orange, was published by HarperOne in 2015. Newsweek describes it as "...written in wry, honest prose like, 'There is nothing ambiguous about an erection.' In Out of Orange, one can see Cleary now, and fans of the show won't be disappointed."
Cleary is a software test engineer and is pursuing a Ph D in Information Assurance and Security.
