Lemony Snicket [pen name of Daniel Handler]

Daniel Handler is an American author best known for his series for children A Series of Unfortunate Events and its prequel All The Wrong Questions, written under the alias Lemony Snicket, which he adopted while writing his first novel, The Basic Eight. Handler has published a number of works for children under the name of Lemony Snicket as well as works for adults under his own name. He was born and grew up in San Francisco, where he now lives with his family. In 2018, he withdrew from delivering the commencement address at his alma mater, Wesleyan University, following protests from students at a number of inappropriate jokes made by Handler at public events.

Sources:

Official website (accessed: August 9, 2020);

wikipedia.org (accessed: August 12 2020);

psmag.com (accessed: August 12 2020).

Bio prepared by Susan Deacy, University of Roehampton, s.deacy@roehampton.ac.uk

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Records in database:

• A Series of Unfortunate Events (Series, Books 1–13)

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