Kim Krizan

Writer

Birthday November 1, 1961

Birth Sign Scorpio

Birthplace Hawthorne, California

Age 62 years old

Nationality United States

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1961

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) and Before Sunset (2004), for which she was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay and a Writers Guild Award.

The trilogy is based on characters she created with Richard Linklater.

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.

1990

Krizan was featured in Linklater's Slacker (1990) and Waking Life (2001).

1993

She is known for her part in Dazed and Confused (1993) where she plays the high school teacher, Ginny Stroud.

Krizan also appeared and wrote her monologue in Waking Life, which discusses language and love.

2007

In 2007, Krizan was selected as spokesperson for the screenwriting software Final Draft.

2008

In 2008, Krizan’s sci-fi/horror comic book, “2061,” was published in Zombie Tales #1, 9, and 11, with all three installments collected into a stand-alone graphic novella entitled Zombie Tales 2061.

2010

In 2010, she also contributed the story “Of and Concerning the Ancient, Mystical, and Holy Origins of ... CBGBs” to issue #3 of the CBGB comic book miniseries.

2012

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.

The Kickstarter campaign was successfully funded in November 2012.

2013

In 2013, Krizan published an article in The Huffington Post revealing she had found a previously unpublished love letter written by Gore Vidal to the diarist Anaïs Nin.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.

2019

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.

Krizan was a board member of the Anaïs Nin Foundation.

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