Kim Krizan

Kim Krizan
Krizan in 2014
BornKim Arnette Krizan
(1961-11-01) November 1, 1961 (age 63)
Hawthorne, California
NationalityAmerican
Area(s)Writer, Actress
Spouse(s)
Chip Mosher
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(m. 1999)​

Kim Krizan (born November 1, 1961) is an American writer and actress best known for originating the story and characters in the Before trilogy with her writing on Before Sunrise (1995)[1] and Before Sunset (2004),[2] for which she was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay and a Writers Guild Award.[3] The trilogy is based on characters she created with Richard Linklater.[4][5] Krizan currently resides in Los Angeles, where she writes and teaches writing courses, most notably at UCLA. In the fall of 2021, she launched a video based writing class on Patreon.[6]

Life and career

Kim Krizan at "Double Indemnity" train station 2012.

Krizan was featured in Linklater's Slacker (1990) and Waking Life (2001). She played the high school teacher, Ginny Stroud, in Dazed and Confused (1993). Krizan also appeared and wrote her monologue in Waking Life, which discusses language and love.[citation needed]

In October 2012, Publishers Weekly spotlighted Krizan's self-publishing efforts on Kickstarter for her debut non-fiction book Original Sins: Trade Secrets of the Femme Fatale.[7] The Kickstarter campaign was successfully funded in November 2012.[8]

In 2013, Krizan published an article in The Huffington Post revealing she had found a previously unpublished love letter written by Gore Vidal to the diarist Anaïs Nin. This letter contradicts Vidal's previous characterization of his relationship with Nin, showing that Vidal did have feelings for her that he later heavily disavowed in his autobiography, Palimpsest. Krizan did this research in the run up to the release of the latest volume of Nin's uncensored diary, Mirages, for which she wrote the foreword.[9]

In 2019 Krizan published Spy in the House of Anaïs Nin, an examination of long-buried letters, papers, and original manuscripts Krizan found while doing archival work in Nin's Los Angeles home.[10]

In the fall of 2021, Krizan brought her writing class online with the debut of "The Magic Hour with Kim Krizan" hosted on Patreon.[citation needed]

References

  1. ^ "'Before Sunrise': The Making of an Indie Classic". The New York Times. January 22, 2020. Retrieved 2020-07-13.
  2. ^ "BEFORE SUNSET Writer Kim Krizan & The Life of Anaïs Nin". The Film Scene with Illeana Douglas. October 10, 2019. Archived from the original on 2021-12-12. Retrieved 2020-07-13.
  3. ^ "This Year's Oscar Nominees". The New York Times. January 26, 2005. Retrieved 2008-09-02.
  4. ^ "La historia que inspiró ANTES DEL AMANECER". Mirá a Quién Encontré. June 27, 2020. Archived from the original on 2021-12-12. Retrieved 2020-07-13.
  5. ^ "Por qué Jesse no besa a Celine en ANTES DEL ATARDECER". Mirá a Quién Encontré. July 8, 2020. Archived from the original on 2021-12-12. Retrieved 2020-07-13.
  6. ^ Meyer, Joshua (2021-10-03). "Before Sunrise Co-Creator And Oscar-Nominated Screenwriter Is Making Her UCLA-Level Class Available Online [Exclusive]". SlashFilm.com. Retrieved 2021-10-03.
  7. ^ "PW Select October 2012: Self-Publishing for 'Dangerous Women'". www.publishersweekly.com. Archived from the original on 2012-10-03.
  8. ^ "Update 6: Here's to You · Original Sins: Trade Secrets of the Femme Fatale".
  9. ^ "Gore Vidal's Secret, Unpublished Love Letter To Anaïs Nin". The Huffington Post. September 27, 2013. Retrieved 2013-09-20.
  10. ^ "Spy In The House Of Anaïs Nin: An Interview With Kim Krizan". Hobart. November 1, 2019. Retrieved 2020-07-11.