Mitchell James Kaplan
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Mitchell James Kaplan

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Mitchell James Kaplan attended The Cate School, a boarding preparatory high school near Santa Barbara, California, where he won the Scholarship Prize and the Music Prize. He entered Yale University and graduated cum laude four years later, receiving honors in English Literature and the Paine Memorial Prize for the best long-form Senior Essay submitted to the English department. His first mentor was the author William Styron. Following college, Mitchell spent four years in France, where he worked as a translator. His primary clients were film producers who sought co-funding from anglophone investors, and he often worked with the screenwriters and/or the novelists whose work was being adapted, including Jean-Pierre Ronssin and the film critic and director Pascal Kané. Among Mitchell's other clients were Claude Bessy, the Danseuse Etoile of the Ballet of the Opéra de Paris, and the Lebanese film director, Maroun Bagdadi. Mitchell's first published short story appeared in the well-regarded Franco-American literary review, Frank. Mitchell returned to Los Angeles 1986. There he worked in the film industry for Director Michael Ritchie, actor/producer Kirk Douglas, and others. Mitchell completed the first draft of his first novel, “By Fire, By Water”, in his country house in Big Bear Lake, Callifornia and succeeding drafts in Mt. Lebanon, Pennsylvania. After moving with his family full-time to Big Bear Lake, Mitchell bought a Piper Archer II and obtained his pilot’s license. He also helped found, and was a judge in, the first Big Bear Lake International Film Festival. He lives in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia with his family and two cats. For more information about Mitchell James Kaplan, visit www.mitchelljameskaplan.com
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