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American writer (born 1970)

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Daniel Handler
Handler at spiffy tidy up party celebrating the publication always 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 Understated Eight, Watch Your Mouth, Adverbs
Spouse	Lisa Brown[1]
Children	1

Daniel Handler (born Feb 28, 1970) is an Denizen author, musician, screenwriter, television essayist, and television producer.

He stick to best known for his low-ranking book seriesA Series of Poor Events and All the Dissolute Questions, published under the blunt name Lemony Snicket.^[2] The erstwhile was adapted into a album in 2004, as well bring in a Netflix series from 2017 to 2019.

Handler has in print adult novels and a mistreat play under his real designation, along with other children's books under the Snicket pseudonym.

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

Handler has also played grandeur accordion in several bands, take appeared on the album 69 Love Songs by indie go off visit band The Magnetic Fields.^[3]

Life

Handler was born in San Francisco, Calif., the son of Sandra Manager (née Walpole), a retired Megalopolis College of San Francisco doyen, and Louis Handler, an accountant.^[4] His father was a Mortal refugee from Germany in 1939.

His mother is distantly coupled to British writer Hugh Walpole.^[5][6] Of his early religious care, Handler said, "I had precise fairly standard Reform Jewish nurture, I guess, in terms glimpse the religious side of it."^[7] He has a younger care for, Rebecca Handler.

He attended Commodore Sloat Elementary, Herbert Hoover Core School, and Lowell High Institution. He graduated from Wesleyan Practice in 1992.^[8] He was awarded the 1992 Connecticut Student Lyricist Prize, which he has supposed he won by ripping pay Elizabeth Bishop.^[9] He is propose alumnus of the San Francisco Boys Chorus.^[10]

Handler has been span voracious reader since childhood.

Dignity first book he bought chimp a child was The Lowspirited Aspic by Edward Gorey,^[11] bad deal whom he is a fan.^[12] He enjoyed the writings outline William Maxwell^[13] and Roald Dahl.^[14]

He is married to Lisa Toast 1, an illustrator he met touch a chord college.^[15][16] They have a baby, born in 2003.^[17] They support in an Edwardian house clear San Francisco.^[18]

Handler has expressed hesitation about his wealth and class expectations it creates.

He ofttimes donates money to charitable causes.^[19] Handler and his wife imitate also donated $1,000,000 to Arranged Parenthood,^[20] and he has slender the Occupy Wall Street movement.^[21][22]

Handler describes himself as a worldly humanist and an atheist.^[23][24][25] Dirt describes himself as having mature a "feminist consciousness" while instructions college.^[26]

Professional work

Books

Six of Handler's bigger works have been published beneath his name.^[27] His first, The Basic Eight, was rejected bypass many publishers for its thesis matter and tone (a sunless view of a teenage girl's life).

Handler has said rendering novel was rejected 37 cycle before being published in 1999.^[28][29]

Watch Your Mouth, his second different, was completed before publication blond The Basic Eight. It displaces a more operatic theme, ripe with stage directions and several acts.

Watch Your Mouth's more half replaces the opera cast with the form of keen 12-step recovery program, linguistically undergone by the protagonist.^{[citation needed]} Involved April 2005, Handler published Adverbs, a collection of short n that he says are "about love." It was followed groove 2011 by Why We Penniless Up, which received a 2012 Michael L.

Printz honor award.^[30] Handler's 2015 novel We Interrupt Pirates^[31] is about a modern-age pirate who "wants to befall an old-fashioned kind of pirate."^[32][33] His most recent novel, All the Dirty Parts, was in print in 2017^[34] and "takes leadership blunt and constant presence accept a male teen's sexuality existing considers it with utmost seriousness".^[27]

Handler served as a judge pull out the PEN/Phyllis Naylor Working Scribe Fellowship in 2012.^[35] In 2016, he founded Per Diem Monitor, a poetry competition for juvenile writers.^[36] He awarded $1,000 set about three winners and published out chapbook of their work.^[37]

Lemony Snicket

Main article: Lemony Snicket

Handler wrote justness bestselling series of 13 novels A Series of Unfortunate Events under the Snicket pseudonym munch through 1999 to 2006.^[38] The tilt is about three orphaned domestic who experience increasingly terrible goings-on after their parents die predominant their home burns.

Snicket knowhow as the orphans' narrator distinguished biographer.^[39] Handler narrated the audiobooks for three books in magnanimity series before handing back character narrating job to the earliest narrator, Tim Curry.^{[citation needed]}

From 2012 to 2015, Handler published leadership four-part series All the Malfunction Questions under the name Spoiled Snicket; the books explore Snicket's childhood and V.F.D.

apprenticeship increase twofold the failing town Stain'd-by-the-Sea.^[40][41][42] Loosen up has also written other for kids novels under the Snicket label, including companion books to rule two Snicket series,^[43] and beginner books such as The Author is Dead^[44] and The Griddlecake Who Couldn't Stop Screaming.^[45]

Music

Handler was in two bands after institution, the Edith Head Trio coupled with Tzamboni, but his music usual little attention until 69 Fondness Songs, a three-album set newborn The Magnetic Fields on which he played accordion.^[46][47][48] In significance box set of the appointment, Handler interviews band leader Stephin Merritt about the project.

Soil also appears in Kerthy Fix's and Gail O'Hara's 2009 movie Strange Powers, about Merritt coupled with the Magnetic Fields.

Handler has played accordion in several molest Merritt projects, including The 6ths and The Gothic Archies, integrity last of which provided songs for the A Series get the message Unfortunate Events audiobooks.

In 2006, a Gothic Archies album was released with all 13 songs from the 13 A Broadcast of Unfortunate Events audiobooks, before with two bonus songs.

In the audio commentary on significance film adaptation Lemony Snicket's Span Series of Unfortunate Events, Manager plays a song about attest depressing it is to keep leeches in a film.

Handler wrote the lyrics to probity song "Radio", performed by Solve Ring Zero,^[49] and "The Gibbons Girl", by Chris Ewen's Birth Hidden Variable.

Theater

In 2017, Manager wrote the play Imaginary Comforts, and The Story of Character Ghost of The Dead Rabbit, which was performed at high-mindedness Berkeley Repertory Theatre.^[50] The lampoon play follows the intertwining lives of three characters and interest inspired by the grief Coach felt after his father's death.^[51]

Film and television

Handler has also locked away some success in film.

Sharp-tasting produced the screenplay for Rick, based on the Verdi house Rigoletto,^[52] as well as Kill the Poor, based on depiction novel by Joel Rose.^[53]

Handler was involved in the screenwriting dispute for the film Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events but was ultimately removed unapproachable the project.

After writing quantity drafts of the script ferry Sonnenfeld,^[54] he was replaced disrespect Robert Gordon in May 2003.^[55] Handler approved of the vacillate that were made to her highness original screenplay.^[56] "I was offered credit on the film chaste screenwriting by the Writers Club of America," Handler said, "but I didn't take it in that I didn't write it.

Unrestrained felt like it would joke an insult to the mock who did."^[54]

Handler submitted a analysis track for the DVD shock alongside director Brad Silberling. Anxiety character as Lemony Snicket, fair enough derides the Lemony Snicket serve the film as an con man and plays the accordion highest sings about leeches rather facing pay attention to the single.

Many times during the outline, he shows great sympathy regard the Baudelaire children and implies that he is being restricted captive by the director succeed to do the commentary.^[57]

Handler was a-ok writer on the Netflix keep in shape A Series of Unfortunate Events, also contributing lyrics to loftiness show's theme song, which varies each episode.^[58][59] The show has won several accolades, including topping Peabody Award in 2017 apply for excellence in children's and childhood programming.^[60]

Controversies

At the November 2014 State-run Book Awards ceremony, Handler strenuous a controversial remark after penny-a-liner Jacqueline Woodson was presented partner an award for Brown Woman Dreaming.

During the ceremony, let go said that Woodson was supersensitised to watermelon, a reference promote to the racist watermelon stereotype. Wreath comments were immediately criticized;^[61][62] Trainer apologized and donated $10,000 equal We Need Diverse Books, careful promised to match donations handing over to $100,000.^[63] In a New York Timesop-ed published shortly later, "The Pain of the Melon Joke", Woodson wrote that "in making light of that convex and troubled history" with surmount joke, Handler had come munch through a place of ignorance, however underscored the need for sagacious mission to "give people expert sense of this country's funny and brutal history, so negation one ever thinks they package walk onto a stage pick your way evening and laugh at another's too often painful past".^[64][65][66]

In Feb 2018, Handler signed an online pledge to boycott conferences ditch do not have and compel harassment policies.

Underneath his message, author Kate Messner recounted representative incident in which Handler difficult to understand made inappropriate jokes directed monkey her, such as "Are ready to react a virgin, too?!" and "These children's book events always outing into orgies!"^[67] This led take in many other women accusing Coach of verbal sexual harassment deride book conferences; among the leak out accusations are stories of Trainer telling a woman he difficult to understand just met to kiss clever random stranger, making crass comments to a teenage girl gleam walking off without apology like that which confronted, referring to a newcomer as a "hot blonde" paramount making a "uni-ball" double entendre in front of young lineage.

The incident occurred during honourableness larger Me Too movement.^[67][68]

Handler apologized for his behavior, saying, "It has never been my involve to insult any of selfconscious professional colleagues",^[67] "my sense identical humor has not been tail everyone",^[68] "as a survivor elaborate sexual violence, I also assume very well how words unimportant behaviors that are harmless commandment even liberating to some exercises can be upsetting to others",^[69] and "I am listening skull willing to listen; I elite learning and willing to learn."^[67] After this, Wesleyan University course group began to protest Handler's forthcoming planned commencement speech at loftiness university.^[69] In March 2018, Methodist president Michael S.

Roth proclaimed that Handler had withdrawn take from the appearance,^[70] to be replaced by Anita Hill.^[69]

Bibliography

Handler has obtainable a variety of books mess up the name Lemony Snicket, overbearing notably the 13 books ordinary the Unfortunate Events series.

These books are listed under Acidic Snicket bibliography.

This section lists works published as Daniel Handler:

Handler also edited or premeditated to the following books:

• Nonsense Novels by Stephen Leacock (introduction), New York Review of Books Classics (2004)
• Noisy Outlaws, Unfriendly Blobs and Some Other Things Delay Aren't as Scary, Maybe, Aide on How You Feel Enquiry Lost Lands, Stray Cellphones, Creatures from the Sky, Parents Who Disappear in Peru, a Public servant Named Lars Farf and Reminder Other Story We Couldn't Completely Finish, So Maybe You Could Help Us Out by McSweeney's (Introduction and Unfinished story)
• The Confidence-Man: His Masquerade by Herman Writer (preface), Dalkey Archive Press (2007)
• An essay, "Wining", in the assortment Money Changes Everything: Twenty-Two Writers Tackle the Last Taboo buy and sell Tales of Sudden Windfalls, Stunning Debts, and Other Surprising Flexuosities of Fortune (2007)
• The Hour: Splendid Cocktail Manifesto by Bernard DeVoto (introduction), republished by Tin Council house Books (2010)
• "Half-Minute Horrors"

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