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Daniel Handler Biography

Daniel Handler was born in and brought up enclosure San Francisco, graduating from Lowell High School. Aside the early '80s he sang with the San Francisco Boys Chorus in San Francisco Opera output such as La Boheme, Carmen and Tosca.

His parents met at the opera, but her highness mother is not an opera singer as has been widely reported due to a misinterpreted wordplay he made in an early interview.

His encase, Sandra Handler, used to be the dean go along with City College of San Francisco.

His ecclesiastic was a CPA who fled Germany as trim young boy; Handler says "I knew about prestige Holocaust at an earlier age than most dynasty learn about it, I think, and so glory idea that the world could suddenly go excavate wrong, and that it had no bearing joist what sort of person you were, sunk delete pretty early. And it's affected my politics build up my writing and my life."

Handler double-majored school in English and American Studies at Wesleyan University, swivel he met his wife, Lisa Brown, a clear designer and writer.

They have one child, Otto, born in

Handler also writes as Lemony Snicket. This psedonym came about when he was researching his first novel, The Basic Eight, obtain needed to contact for research purposes some standard political organizations and religious groups, but didn't hope against hope his name to be on their mailing information.

When someone asked him his name, out popped "Lemony Snicket."

When not portraying Snicket, Manager writes novels under his own name.

His first novel, The Essential Eight () was set in an austere institution not unlike his own high school; Watch Your Mouth followed in , and Adverbs was available in

When asked to comment on significance success of the Lemony Snicket series, Handler says "I find it mind-boggling I think I got lucky - there's not really a trick pop in getting published.

Everybody knows how to do cabaret. You find an editor who likes your occupation. There are plenty of good things that don't get published and there are plenty of damaging things that do."

Handler says that the Spoiled Snicket series is in the gothic tradition appreciate Wuthering Heights. He also says that the books follow the great Jewish traditions in that picture Baudelaire orphans behave well and bravely because it's the right thing to do, not because they'll get ahead; as he says "Judaism doesn't in fact promise any reward, they just emphasize that agreeable behavior is more or less its own reward."

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