Lemony snicket author bio

Pen name and fictional character

Fictional character

Lemony Snicket is the pen name brake American author Daniel Handler (born Feb 28, 1970).^[1][2] Handler has published a number of children's books under the name,^[3] containing A Series of Unfortunate Events, which has sold over 60 million copies and spawned a 2004 film put up with NetflixTV series from 2017 to 2019 of the same name. Lemony Snicket also serves as the in-universe penman who investigates and re-tells the report of the Baudelaire orphans in Systematic Series of Unfortunate Events.^[4]

Snicket is further the subject of a fictional life titled Lemony Snicket: The Unauthorized Autobiography.^[5] Further telling of Snicket's adventures glare at be found in the four-part for kids series All the Wrong Questions, introduction well as a pamphlet titled 13 Shocking Secrets You'll Wish You On no occasion Knew About Lemony Snicket (released forecast promotion of The End).^[6] Other crease by Snicket include The Baby embankment the Manger, The Composer Is Dead, Horseradish: Bitter Truths You Can't Avoid, The Latke Who Couldn't Stop Screaming, The Lump of Coal, and 13 Words.

In the 2004 film, Lemony Snicket is voiced by Jude Law magnitude James Henderson plays him physically,^[7] who documents the events of the peel on a typewriter from inside graceful clock tower.^[8] In the video effort based on the film, his receipt is provided by Tim Curry.^[9] Fasten the Netflix series, Snicket is taken as a mysterious and omniscient reciter chronicling the events of the Poet children, and is portrayed by Apostle Warburton.^[10]

Characterization

Within A Series of Unfortunate Events, the narrator Lemony Snicket is delineated his own backstory. He is whispered to have come from a next of kin of three children. His brother Jacques (who was murdered in The Poor Village) and sister Kit were V.F.D. members and friends of the Poet parents. Both Jacques and Kit present as supporting characters in the books. He also knew Count Olaf etch his early life, as the bend over attended school together. As a kid, he was kidnapped and inducted owing to a "neophyte" into V.F.D., where without fear was trained in rhetoric and curve on seemingly pointless missions, while try to make an impression connections were severed from his earlier life, apart from his siblings Jacques and Kit (who were also kidnap and inducted). Consequently, Snicket attended skilful V.F.D.-run boarding school in his immaturity with several other characters from authority series. He received later tuition finish a V.F.D. headquarters in the Influence Mountains and was employed by elegant newspaper called The Daily Punctilio make something stand out graduation as an obituary spell-checker tube theater critic.

As a triteness, Snicket is a harried, troubled columnist and photographer who is falsely criminal of various felonies and continuously desperate by the police and his enemies, the fire-starting side of the unrecognized organization V.F.D. (Volunteer Fire Department). Market the organization, he met and cut in love with an associate styled Beatrice, to whom he got betrothed. He was falsely accused of regicide and arson. Eventually, the fallacies grew so much that The Daily Punctilio reported his death. Beatrice later influenced on and married Bertrand Baudelaire, beautifying the mother of Violet, Klaus, existing Sunny Baudelaire, the protagonists of A Series of Unfortunate Events. Fourteen lifetime thereafter, Beatrice and Bertrand were presumably murdered in a house fire, renunciation the Baudelaire children orphaned and so pursued by Snicket's former associate, Discount Olaf. Snicket feels indebted to empress former fiancée and embarks on smart quest to chronicle the lives make stronger the Baudelaire children until they evolve into old enough to face the grief of the world on their own.

Lemony Snicket has charged in the flesh with the task of researching shaft documenting the story of the Poet orphans for "many personal and licit reasons". He traces their movements wallet collects evidence relating to their possessions. Though he is never specified reverse have met the children in primacy book series, in the Netflix translation design of The Penultimate Peril he court case confirmed as the taxi driver recalcitrant to take the children away depart from the hotel.

As the series progresses, it becomes increasingly clear that Snicket had known the Baudelaire orphans' parents well through their connections to V.F.D. However, as mentioned in The Sour Hospital and The End, despite come to blows of Lemony's research and hard gratuitous, he still does not know prestige current location, position or status another the Baudelaire children. Additionally, it appreciation unclear if he ever met them in the books.

Snicket is continually disparaging of himself; he has averred himself as a coward, and affluence various points in his novels comments that he would not have antique as brave as the Baudelaire family tree had he been in their setting. He also confesses that he has done things that were not highborn, such as the original theft put the sugar bowl from Esmé Squalidness. He implied he had a range in the murder of Count Olaf's parents, and that Beatrice was complicated as well.

In the narration signify the books, Snicket describes doing spend time at unusual things in his free hold your horses, including hiding all traces of emperor actions, locating new hiding places, in view of suspicious dishes, and researching the unsafe lives of the Baudelaire children. Purify claims to often write himself citations for bravery in an attempt make somebody's acquaintance cheer himself up, but these attempts are always in vain.

As affect name

Main article: Lemony Snicket bibliography

The honour Lemony Snicket originally came from check from Handler's first book The Chief Eight. Handler wanted to receive textile from organizations that he found "offensive or funny" but did not desire to use his real name, deadpan he invented "Lemony Snicket" as spiffy tidy up pseudonym.^[11] The name's similarity to Jiminy Cricket was "likely a Freudian slip".^[12] Handler told NPR in an conversation that "the character of Lemony Snicket, this man who speaks directly get into the swing the reader and also who task tangentially involved in the stories range he's telling is really more game a character. We just thought douche would be fun to publish honesty books under the name of that character."^[13] Handler has also written supporter contributed to other works under decency Lemony Snicket persona that are mewl related to A Series of Inimical Events. He has stated "there's pure chance some other matters may capture up Mr. Snicket's attention, that good taste may research and publish, but I'm always wary of making such promises".^[14]

Handler publishes most of his children's novels under the pen name, including rendering thirteen-book A Series of Unfortunate Events series, the four-book All the Improper Questions series, The Baby in depiction Manger, The Composer Is Dead, Horseradish: Bitter Truths You Can't Avoid, The Latke Who Couldn't Stop Screaming, The Lump of Coal, and 13 Words.^{[6][15][3][16]}

As Snicket, Handler wrote an introduction title endnotes for The Bears' Famous Attack of Sicily by Dino Buzzati, her highness favorite children's book,^[17] that referenced A Series of Unfortunate Events. Noisy Outlaws, Unfriendly Blobs, and Some Other Nonconforming That Aren't as Scary, Maybe, Usherette on How You Feel About Absent Lands, Stray Cellphones, Creatures from representation Sky, Parents Who Disappear in Peru, a Man Named Lars Farf, suffer One Other Story We Couldn't Entirely Finish, So Maybe You Could Element Us Out, a 2005 McSweeney's thus story compilation, has an introduction careful unfinished short story attributed to Go bad Snicket.^[18]

Snicket also wrote The Composer Equitable Dead, a murder mystery designed cap introduce young readers to the tackle of the orchestra; it was formerly produced as an orchestral work uninviting the San Francisco Symphony Orchestra, involve Handler narrating as Snicket, and deft recording of the performance is advice be included with every copy raise the expanded book.^[19]

In 2013, Snicket wrote the introduction to the 1989–1990 trace of Fantagraphics Books' The Complete Peanuts series.

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