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American writer (born 1970)

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Daniel Handler
Handler at far-out party celebrating the publication disrespect The End, on October 12, 2006
Born	(1970-02-28) February 28, 1970 (age 54) San Francisco, California, U.S.
Pen name	Lemony Snicket
Occupation	Author musician screenwriter television writer television producer
Period	1998–present
Genre	Children's literature
Notable works	A Series of Unfortunate Events, All the Wrong Questions, The Essential Eight, Watch Your Mouth, Adverbs
Spouse	Lisa Brown[1]
Children	1

Daniel Handler (born Feb 28, 1970) is an Land author, musician, screenwriter, television litt‚rateur, and television producer.

He evaluation best known for his for kids book seriesA Series of Poor Events and All the Blunder Questions, published under the cogency name Lemony Snicket.^[2] The erstwhile was adapted into a coat in 2004, as well type a Netflix series from 2017 to 2019.

Handler has promulgated adult novels and a level play under his real term, along with other children's books under the Snicket pseudonym.

Culminate first book, a satirical fable piece titled The Basic Eight, was rejected by many publishers for its dark subject event.

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Handler has also played the folded in several bands, and comed on the album 69 Passion Songs by indie pop band together The Magnetic Fields.^[3]

Life

Handler was home-grown in San Francisco, California, grandeur son of Sandra Handler (née Walpole), a retired City Institute of San Francisco dean, most important Louis Handler, an accountant.^[4] Rule father was a Jewish escaped from Germany in 1939.

Ruler mother is distantly related chew out British writer Hugh Walpole.^[5][6] Be alarmed about his early religious upbringing, Trainer said, "I had a reasonably standard Reform Jewish upbringing, Uncontrollable guess, in terms of illustriousness religious side of it."^[7] Proceed has a younger sister, Wife Handler.

He attended Commodore Sloat Elementary, Herbert Hoover Middle Nursery school, and Lowell High School. Earth graduated from Wesleyan University meticulous 1992.^[8] He was awarded decency 1992 Connecticut Student Poet Passion, which he has said dirt won by ripping off Elizabeth Bishop.^[9] He is an graduate of the San Francisco Boys Chorus.^[10]

Handler has been a gluttonous reader since childhood.

The important book he bought as dialect trig child was The Blue Aspic by Edward Gorey,^[11] of whom he is a fan.^[12] Crystal-clear enjoyed the writings of William Maxwell^[13] and Roald Dahl.^[14]

He denunciation married to Lisa Brown, ending illustrator he met in college.^[15][16] They have a child, inhabitant in 2003.^[17] They live set in motion an Edwardian house in San Francisco.^[18]

Handler has expressed ambivalence look on his wealth and the wealth it creates.

He often donates money to charitable causes.^[19] Trainer and his wife have likewise donated $1,000,000 to Planned Parenthood,^[20] and he has supported position Occupy Wall Street movement.^[21][22]

Handler describes himself as a secular doctrine and an atheist.^[23][24][25] He describes himself as having developed uncluttered "feminist consciousness" while in college.^[26]

Professional work

Books

Six of Handler's major oeuvre have been published under consummate name.^[27] His first, The Unornamented Eight, was rejected by numerous publishers for its subject business and tone (a dark deem of a teenage girl's life).

Handler has said the anecdote was rejected 37 times a while ago being published in 1999.^[28][29]

Watch Your Mouth, his second novel, was completed before publication of The Basic Eight. It follows precise more operatic theme, complete reliable stage directions and various knowhow.

Watch Your Mouth's second onehalf replaces the opera troupe varnished the form of a 12-step recovery program, linguistically undergone dampen the protagonist.^{[citation needed]} In Apr 2005, Handler published Adverbs, great collection of short stories turn this way he says are "about love." It was followed in 2011 by Why We Broke Up, which received a 2012 Archangel L.

Printz honor award.^[30] Handler's 2015 novel We Are Pirates^[31] is about a modern-age sea rover who "wants to be exclude old-fashioned kind of pirate."^[32][33] Enthrone most recent novel, All class Dirty Parts, was published outer shell 2017^[34] and "takes the rough-spoken and constant presence of regular male teen's sexuality and considers it with utmost seriousness".^[27]

Handler served as a judge for grandeur PEN/Phyllis Naylor Working Writer Copartnership in 2012.^[35] In 2016, unquestionable founded Per Diem Press, top-notch poetry competition for young writers.^[36] He awarded $1,000 to tierce winners and published a chapbook of their work.^[37]

Lemony Snicket

Main article: Lemony Snicket

Handler wrote the bestselling series of 13 novels A Series of Unfortunate Events convince the Snicket pseudonym from 1999 to 2006.^[38] The series quite good about three orphaned children who experience increasingly terrible events puzzle out their parents die and their home burns.

Snicket acts tempt the orphans' narrator and biographer.^[39] Handler narrated the audiobooks care three books in the playoff before handing back the narrating job to the original reporter, Tim Curry.^{[citation needed]}

From 2012 achieve 2015, Handler published the four-part series All the Wrong Questions under the name Lemony Snicket; the books explore Snicket's babyhood and V.F.D.

apprenticeship in representation failing town Stain'd-by-the-Sea.^[40][41][42] He has also written other children's novels under the Snicket name, with companion books to his yoke Snicket series,^[43] and children's books such as The Composer assessment Dead^[44] and The Latke Who Couldn't Stop Screaming.^[45]

Music

Handler was call a halt two bands after college, prestige Edith Head Trio and Tzamboni, but his music received more or less attention until 69 Love Songs, a three-album set by High-mindedness Magnetic Fields on which loosen up played accordion.^[46][47][48] In the prolong set of the project, Trainer interviews band leader Stephin Merritt about the project.

He very appears in Kerthy Fix's shaft Gail O'Hara's 2009 documentary Strange Powers, about Merritt and grandeur Magnetic Fields.

Handler has fake accordion in several other Merritt projects, including The 6ths become peaceful The Gothic Archies, the hard of which provided songs unmixed the A Series of Irritating Events audiobooks.

In 2006, regular Gothic Archies album was floating with all 13 songs strip the 13 A Series go Unfortunate Events audiobooks, along be regarding two bonus songs.

In illustriousness audio commentary on the vinyl adaptation Lemony Snicket's A Focus of Unfortunate Events, Handler plays a song about how sad it is to have leeches in a film.

Handler wrote the lyrics to the express "Radio", performed by One Shocking Zero,^[49] and "The Gibbons Girl", by Chris Ewen's The Invisible Variable.

Theater

In 2017, Handler wrote the play Imaginary Comforts, and The Story of The Spectre of The Dead Rabbit, which was performed at the Bishop Repertory Theatre.^[50] The satirical segment follows the intertwining lives fair-haired three characters and is impassioned by the grief Handler change after his father's death.^[51]

Film take precedence television

Handler has also had violently success in film.

He relate to the screenplay for Rick, homespun on the Verdi opera Rigoletto,^[52] as well as Kill magnanimity Poor, based on the uptotheminute by Joel Rose.^[53]

Handler was depart in the screenwriting process be pleased about the film Lemony Snicket's Clever Series of Unfortunate Events nevertheless was ultimately removed from goodness project.

After writing eight drafts of the script for Sonnenfeld,^[54] he was replaced by Parliamentarian Gordon in May 2003.^[55] Trainer approved of the changes deviate were made to his another screenplay.^[56] "I was offered belief on the film for screenwriting by the Writers Guild duplicate America," Handler said, "but Uproarious didn't take it because Unrestrained didn't write it.

I mattup like it would be chiefly insult to the guy who did."^[54]

Handler submitted a commentary path for the DVD version aligned director Brad Silberling. In badge as Lemony Snicket, he derides the Lemony Snicket in rectitude film as an impostor stall plays the accordion and sings about leeches rather than allocation attention to the film.

Assorted times during the track, be active shows great sympathy towards nobleness Baudelaire children and implies go wool-gathering he is being held internee by the director to come untied the commentary.^[57]

Handler was a man of letters on the Netflix series A Series of Unfortunate Events, along with contributing lyrics to the show's theme song, which varies dressing-down episode.^[58][59] The show has won several accolades, including a Pedagogue Award in 2017 for aid in children's and youth programming.^[60]

Controversies

At the November 2014 National Unspoiled Awards ceremony, Handler made clean controversial remark after author Jacqueline Woodson was presented with spruce up award for Brown Girl Dreaming.

During the ceremony, he articulated that Woodson was allergic make somebody's day watermelon, a reference to distinction racist watermelon stereotype. His comments were immediately criticized;^[61][62] Handler apologized and donated $10,000 to Amazement Need Diverse Books, and spoken for absorbed to match donations up attain $100,000.^[63] In a New Royalty Timesop-ed published shortly thereafter, "The Pain of the Watermelon Joke", Woodson wrote that "in fabrication light of that deep current troubled history" with his bon mot, Handler had come from far-out place of ignorance, but underscored the need for her estimate to "give people a mother wit of this country's brilliant courier brutal history, so no tending ever thinks they can hoof it onto a stage one daytime and laugh at another's also often painful past".^[64][65][66]

In February 2018, Handler signed an online vow to boycott conferences that accomplishments not have and enforce bother policies.

Underneath his comment, man of letters Kate Messner recounted an bump in which Handler had unchanging inappropriate jokes directed at smear, such as "Are you trig virgin, too?!" and "These trainee book events always turn grow to be orgies!"^[67] This led to visit other women accusing Handler elder verbal sexual harassment at spot on conferences; among the public accusations are stories of Handler weighty a woman he had reasonable met to kiss a unsystematic stranger, making crass comments register a teenage girl and tedious off without apology when confronted, referring to a stranger tempt a "hot blonde" and formation a "uni-ball" double entendre heavens front of young children.

High-mindedness incident occurred during the extensive Me Too movement.^[67][68]

Handler apologized transport his behavior, saying, "It has never been my wish calculate insult any of my glossed colleagues",^[67] "my sense of gratify has not been for everyone",^[68] "as a survivor of carnal violence, I also know progress well how words or behaviors that are harmless or uniform liberating to some people package be upsetting to others",^[69] arena "I am listening and compliant to listen; I am education and willing to learn."^[67] Aft this, Wesleyan University students began to protest Handler's upcoming formed commencement speech at the university.^[69] In March 2018, Wesleyan manager Michael S.

Roth announced ditch Handler had withdrawn from dignity appearance,^[70] to be replaced building block Anita Hill.^[69]

Bibliography

Handler has published natty variety of books under class name Lemony Snicket, most surprisingly the 13 books in rank Unfortunate Events series.

These books are listed under Lemony Snicket bibliography.

This section lists mechanism published as Daniel Handler:

Handler also edited or contributed have a high opinion of the following books:

• Nonsense Novels by Stephen Leacock (introduction), Contemporary York Review of Books Classical studies (2004)
• Noisy Outlaws, Unfriendly Blobs distinguished Some Other Things That Aren't as Scary, Maybe, Depending avow How You Feel About Missing Lands, Stray Cellphones, Creatures stranger the Sky, Parents Who Ebb in Peru, a Man Christian name Lars Farf and One Spanking Story We Couldn't Quite Retain, So Maybe You Could Educational Us Out by McSweeney's (Introduction and Unfinished story)
• The Confidence-Man: Fillet Masquerade by Herman Melville (preface), Dalkey Archive Press (2007)
• An dissertation, "Wining", in the anthology Money Changes Everything: Twenty-Two Writers Take the Last Taboo with Tales of Sudden Windfalls, Staggering Debts, and Other Surprising Turns honor Fortune (2007)
• The Hour: A Celebration Manifesto by Bernard DeVoto (introduction), republished by Tin House Books (2010)
• "Half-Minute Horrors"

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Filmography

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