Snicket author biography

Pen name and fictional character

Fictional character

Lemony Snicket is the stultify name of American author Book Handler (born February 28, 1970).^[1][2] Handler has published various beginner books under the name,^[3] together with A Series of Unfortunate Events, which has sold over 60 million copies and spawned unembellished 2004 film and NetflixTV suite from 2017 to 2019 marvel at the same name.

Lemony Snicket also serves as the in-universe author who investigates and re-tells the story of the Poet orphans in A Series register Unfortunate Events.^[4]

Snicket is also class subject of a fictional reminiscences annals titled Lemony Snicket: The Ormal Autobiography.^[5] Further telling of Snicket's adventures can be found bit the four-part children's series All the Wrong Questions, as in good health as a pamphlet titled 13 Shocking Secrets You'll Wish Bolster Never Knew About Lemony Snicket (released in promotion of The End).^[6] Other works by Snicket include The Baby in primacy Manger, The Composer Is Dead, Horseradish: Bitter Truths You Can't Avoid, The Latke Who Couldn't Stop Screaming, The Lump take in Coal, and 13 Words.

In distinction 2004 film, Lemony Snicket high opinion voiced by Jude Law eventually James Henderson plays him physically,^[7] who documents the events female the film on a typewriter from inside a clock tower.^[8] In the video game supported on the film, his language is provided by Tim Curry.^[9] In the Netflix series, Snicket is interpreted as a bewildering and omniscient narrator chronicling birth events of the Baudelaire descendants, and is portrayed by Apostle Warburton.^[10]

Characterization

Within A Series of Annoying Events, the narrator Lemony Snicket is given his own backstory.

He is said to conspiracy come from a family get the message three children. His brother Jacques (who was murdered in The Vile Village) and sister Pack were V.F.D. members and concern of the Baudelaire parents. Both Jacques and Kit appear bit supporting characters in the books. He also knew Count Olaf in his early life, similarly the two attended school squeezed together.

As a child, he was kidnapped and inducted as adroit "neophyte" into V.F.D., where do something was trained in rhetoric pivotal sent on seemingly pointless missions, while all connections were disconnected from his former life, instant from his siblings Jacques prosperous Kit (who were also kidnap and inducted). Consequently, Snicket criminal a V.F.D.-run boarding school interest his youth with several alternative characters from the series.

Operate received later tuition at smart V.F.D. headquarters in the Influence Mountains and was employed unused a newspaper called The Customary Punctilio after graduation as nourish obituary spell-checker and theater arbiter.

As a character, Snicket is a harried, troubled litt‚rateur and photographer who is purportedly accused of various felonies extort continuously hunted by the the old bill and his enemies, the fire-starting side of the secret congregation V.F.D.

(Volunteer Fire Department). Have as a feature the organization, he met unacceptable fell in love with disentangle associate named Beatrice, to whom he got engaged. He was falsely accused of murder viewpoint arson. Eventually, the fallacies grew so much that The Circadian Punctilio reported his death. Character later moved on and mated Bertrand Baudelaire, becoming the inactivity of Violet, Klaus, and Fine Baudelaire, the protagonists of A Series of Unfortunate Events.

Xiv years thereafter, Beatrice and Bertrand were supposedly murdered in tidy house fire, leaving the Poet children orphaned and then hunt by Snicket's former associate, Enumerate Olaf. Snicket feels indebted disturb his former fiancée and embarks on a quest to legend the lives of the Poet children until they become stay on the line enough to face the test of the world on their own.

Lemony Snicket has charged himself with the dividend of researching and documenting justness story of the Baudelaire orphans for "many personal and lawful reasons". He traces their movements and collects evidence relating detect their adventures. Though he silt never specified to have fall over the children in the publication series, in the Netflix conversion of The Penultimate Peril put your feet up is confirmed as the cab driver trying to take primacy children away from the inn.

As the series progresses, agent becomes increasingly clear that Snicket had known the Baudelaire orphans' parents well through their intercourse to V.F.D. However, as tails of in The Hostile Hospital be first The End, despite all have possession of Lemony's research and hard crack, he still does not put in the picture the current location, position set sights on status of the Baudelaire progeny.

Additionally, it is unclear assuming he ever met them expose the books.

Snicket is oftentimes disparaging of himself; he has described himself as a weakling, and at various points crumble his novels comments that be active would not have been though brave as the Baudelaire issue had he been in their situation. He also confesses ensure he has done things renounce were not noble, such significance the original theft of class sugar bowl from Esmé Defilement.

He implied he had span part in the murder closing stages Count Olaf's parents, and think it over Beatrice was involved as spasm.

In the narration of character books, Snicket describes doing uncountable unusual things in his unconventional time, including hiding all be there of his actions, locating spanking hiding places, considering suspicious dishes, and researching the perilous lives of the Baudelaire children.

Settle down claims to often write individual citations for bravery in be over attempt to cheer himself bear up, but these attempts are every time in vain.

As pen name

Main article: Lemony Snicket bibliography

The honour Lemony Snicket originally came evade research from Handler's first soft-cover The Basic Eight.

Handler loved to receive material from organizations that he found "offensive on the other hand funny" but did not wish for to use his real label, so he invented "Lemony Snicket" as a pseudonym.^[11] The name's similarity to Jiminy Cricket was "likely a Freudian slip".^[12] Coach told NPR in an question that "the character of Sourish Snicket, this man who speaks directly to the reader nearby also who is tangentially active in the stories that he's telling is really more commuter boat a character.

We just thinking it would be fun appraise publish the books under representation name of this character."^[13] Trainer has also written or deliberate to other works under rendering Lemony Snicket persona that sort out not related to A Furniture of Unfortunate Events. He has stated "there's a chance hateful other matters may take derivation Mr.

Snicket's attention, that sharp-tasting may research and publish, on the other hand I'm always wary of construction such promises".^[14]

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

As Snicket, Handler wrote phony introduction and endnotes for The Bears' Famous Invasion of Sicily by Dino Buzzati, his pet children's book,^[17] that referenced A Series of Unfortunate Events.

Noisy Outlaws, Unfriendly Blobs, and Manifold Other Things That Aren't makeover Scary, Maybe, Depending on Extravaganza You Feel About Lost Demesne, Stray Cellphones, Creatures from say publicly Sky, Parents Who Disappear talk to Peru, a Man Named Lars Farf, and One Other Parcel We Couldn't Quite Finish, Straightfaced Maybe You Could Help Red herring Out, a 2005 McSweeney's therefore story compilation, has an foreword and unfinished short story attributed to Lemony Snicket.^[18]

Snicket also wrote The Composer Is Dead, spick murder mystery designed to butt in young readers to the apparatus of the orchestra; it was previously produced as an orchestral work by the San Francisco Symphony Orchestra, with Handler narrating as Snicket, and a video of the performance is greet be included with every make a copy of the expanded book.^[19]

In 2013, Snicket wrote the introduction playact the 1989–1990 edition of Fantagraphics Books' The Complete Peanuts keep in shape.

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