33 Facts About Daniel Handler

Daniel Handler is best known for his children's book series A Series of Unfortunate Events and All the Wrong Questions, published under the pen name Lemony Snicket.

Daniel Handler has played the accordion in several bands, and appeared on the album 69 Love Songs by indie pop band The Magnetic Fields.

Daniel Handler's father was a Jewish refugee from Germany in 1939.

Daniel Handler's mother is distantly related to British writer Hugh Walpole.

Daniel Handler attended Commodore Sloat Elementary, Herbert Hoover Middle School, and Lowell High School.

Daniel Handler was awarded the 1992 Connecticut Student Poet Prize, which he has said he won by ripping off Elizabeth Bishop.

Daniel Handler is an alumnus of the San Francisco Boys Chorus.

Daniel Handler enjoyed the writings of William Maxwell and Roald Dahl.

Daniel Handler is married to Lisa Brown, an illustrator he met in college.

Daniel Handler has expressed ambivalence about his wealth and the expectations it creates.

Daniel Handler describes himself as a secular humanist and an atheist.

Daniel Handler describes himself as having developed a "feminist consciousness" while in college.

Daniel Handler has said the novel was rejected 37 times before being published in 1999.

Daniel Handler awarded $1,000 to three winners and published a chapbook of their work.

Daniel Handler wrote the bestselling series of 13 novels A Series of Unfortunate Events under the Snicket pseudonym from 1999 to 2006.

Daniel Handler narrated the audiobooks for three books in the series before handing back the narrating job to the original narrator, Tim Curry.

Daniel Handler has written other children's novels under the Snicket name, including companion books to his two Snicket series, and children's books such as The Composer is Dead and The Latke Who Couldn't Stop Screaming.

Daniel Handler was in two bands after college, the Edith Head Trio and Tzamboni, but his music received little attention until 69 Love Songs, a three-album set by The Magnetic Fields on which he played accordion.

Daniel Handler appears in Kerthy Fix's and Gail O'Hara's 2009 documentary Strange Powers, about Merritt and the Magnetic Fields.

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

Daniel Handler wrote the lyrics to the song "Radio", performed by One Ring Zero, and "The Gibbons Girl", by Chris Ewen's The Hidden Variable.

In 2017, Daniel Handler wrote the play Imaginary Comforts, and The Story of The Ghost of The Dead Rabbit, which was performed at the Berkeley Repertory Theatre.

The satirical play follows the intertwining lives of three characters and is inspired by the grief Daniel Handler felt after his father's death.

Daniel Handler produced the screenplay for Rick, based on the Verdi opera Rigoletto, as well as Kill the Poor, based on the novel by Joel Rose.

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

Daniel Handler approved of the changes that were made to his original screenplay.

Daniel Handler submitted a commentary track for the DVD version alongside director Brad Silberling.

Daniel Handler was a writer on the Netflix series A Series of Unfortunate Events, contributing lyrics to the show's theme song, which varies each episode.

At the November 2014 National Book Awards ceremony, Daniel Handler made a controversial remark after author Jacqueline Woodson was presented with an award for Brown Girl Dreaming.

Daniel Handler's comments were immediately criticized; Handler apologized and donated $10,000 to We Need Diverse Books, and promised to match donations up to $100,000.

In February 2018, Daniel Handler signed an online pledge to boycott conferences that do not have and enforce harassment policies.

In March 2018, Wesleyan president Michael S Roth announced that Handler had withdrawn from the appearance, to be replaced by Anita Hill.

Daniel Handler has published a variety of books under the name Lemony Snicket, most notably the 13 books in the Unfortunate Events series.