Daniel Handler
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Daniel Handler (born February 28, 1970) is the real name of Lemony Snicket, author of the popular A Series of Unfortunate Events books. He graduated from Lowell High School and from Wesleyan University in 1992. He is a native of San Francisco and went to the San Francisco Boys Chorus. He used the pen name Lemony Snicket to write the books, as well as Lemony's autobiography. The autobiography is listed as fiction.
After several years of writing the books, Lemony's identity was finally figured out. Daniel no longer hides it as well.
He is married to Lisa Brown and had their first child in October of 2003. Their child's name is Otto. He is planning on writing 13 books to complete the Series of Unfortunate Events.
About once per book, Snicket provides the reader with glimpes of his life. We know that he:
- plays the accordion very well
- has been chased by an angry mob for 16 miles
- had an unhappy love affair with a women called Beatrice, who even wrote a book (200 pages) explaining why it was impossible for her to marry him
- attended a costume ball dressed as a bullfighter, to gain access to his beloved Beatrice, who was dressed as a dragonfly
- once had a sword-fight with a television repairman
- once had a curse put on him by a fortune-teller after he accidently broke her crystal ball after being tripped by a policeman
- learned how to make a salad from his sister
- wrote the books because of Beatrice's death
He dedicated his life to the Baudelaire orphans story.
It is also believed by some people that his wife, author and illustrator Lisa Brown (who commited suicide in Oct. of '04) could possibly be the "Beatrice" that Handler writes his books for.