Lemony Snicket

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born

February 28, 1970 in San Francisco , The United States

gender

male

website

http://www.lemonysnicket.com/

genre

Children's Books, Literature & Fiction, Mystery & Thrillers

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Lemony Snicket is the pen name of American novelist Daniel Handler. Snicket is the author of several children's books, serving as the narrator of A Series of Unfortunate Events (his best-known work) and appearing as a character within the series. Because of this, the name Lemony Snicket may refer to both a fictional character and a real person. This article deals primarily with the character.

As a character, Snicket is a harried, troubled writer and researcher falsely accused of felonies and continuously hunted by the police and his enemies, the fire-starting side of the secret organization Volunteer Fire Department (V.F.D.). As a child he was kidnapped and inducted as a "neophyte" into V.F.D., where he was trained in rhetoric and sent on se...more Lemony Snicket is the pen name of American novelist Daniel Handler. Snicket is the author of several children's books, serving as the narrator of A Series of Unfortunate Events (his best-known work) and appearing as a character within the series. Because of this, the name Lemony Snicket may refer to both a fictional character and a real person. This article deals primarily with the character.

As a character, Snicket is a harried, troubled writer and researcher falsely accused of felonies and continuously hunted by the police and his enemies, the fire-starting side of the secret organization Volunteer Fire Department (V.F.D.). As a child he was kidnapped and inducted as a "neophyte" into V.F.D., where he was trained in rhetoric and sent on seemingly pointless missions while all connections to his former life, apart from his siblings Jacques and Kit (who were also kidnapped and inducted), were severed. In the organization he met and fell in love with a peer named Beatrice, to whom he eventually became engaged. After a series of unfortunate events (after which the real-world series is in some ways named), he became falsely accused of murder and arson. Eventually the fallacies grew so much that The Daily Punctilio reported his death. Beatrice eventually moved on and married Bertrand Baudelaire, becoming the mother of Violet, Klaus, and Sunny Baudelaire, the protagonists of A Series of Unfortunate Events. Fourteen years thereafter Beatrice and Bertrand were murdered in a house fire, leaving the Baudelaires orphans. Feeling indebted to his former fiancée, Snicket embarks on a quest to chronicle the lives of the Baudelaire children until they become old enough to face the troubles of the world on their own.

Snicket is the subject of a fictional autobiography, Lemony Snicket: The Unauthorized Autobiography (which contains an introduction from a fictionalized version of Daniel Handler). A pamphlet, 13 Shocking Secrets You'll Wish You Never Knew About Lemony Snicket, was released in promotion of The End. Other works by Snicket include The Baby in 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". Snicket is currently writing a new children's series that is due out sometime in 2012.(less)

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Average rating: 3.81 · 456,815 ratings · 15,938 reviews · 48 distinct works

	The Bad Beginning (A Series of Unfortunate Events, #1) 3.72 avg rating — 80,660 ratings — published 1999 — 66 editions	My rating:
	The Reptile Room (A Series of Unfortunate Events, #2) 3.80 avg rating — 41,967 ratings — published 1999 — 53 editions	My rating:
	The Wide Window (A Series of Unfortunate Events, #3) by Lemony Snicket, Brett Helquist (Illustrations), Michael Kupperman (Illustrations) 3.77 avg rating — 37,873 ratings — published 2000 — 45 editions	My rating:
	The Austere Academy (A Series of Unfortunate Events, #5) by Lemony Snicket, Brett Helquist (Illustrations), Michael Kupperman (Illustrations) 3.84 avg rating — 31,862 ratings — published 2000 — 43 editions	My rating:
	The Miserable Mill (A Series of Unfortunate Events, #4) 3.70 avg rating — 33,634 ratings — published 2000 — 49 editions	My rating:
	The Ersatz Elevator (A Series of Unfortunate Events, #6) by Lemony Snicket, Tim Curry (Narrator) 3.90 avg rating — 30,306 ratings — published 2001 — 37 editions	My rating:
	The Carnivorous Carnival (A Series of Unfortunate Events, #9) by Lemony Snicket, Brett Helquist (Illustrations), Michael Kupperman (Illustrations) 3.84 avg rating — 26,917 ratings — published 2002 — 28 editions	My rating:
	The Vile Village (A Series of Unfortunate Events, #7) by Lemony Snicket, Tim Curry (Reading) 3.80 avg rating — 28,429 ratings — published 2001 — 39 editions	My rating:
	The Slippery Slope (A Series of Unfortunate Events, #10) by Lemony Snicket, Brett Helquist (Illustrations), Michael Kupperman (Illustrations) 3.89 avg rating — 26,198 ratings — published 2003 — 27 editions	My rating:
	The Grim Grotto (A Series of Unfortunate Events, #11) by Lemony Snicket, Brett Helquist (Illustrations), Michael Kupperman (Illustrations) 3.87 avg rating — 24,255 ratings — published 2004 — 25 editions	My rating:

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A Series of Unfortunate Events (13 books)
by Lemony Snicket, Tim Curry (Reading)

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All The Wrong Questions (1 book)
by Lemony Snicket (Author)

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“Never trust anyone who has not brought a book with them.”
― Lemony Snicket, Horseradish: Bitter Truths You Can't Avoid

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“Fate is like a strange, unpopular restaurant filled with odd little waiters who bring you things you never asked for and don't always like.”
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“Reading is one form of escape. Running for your life is another.”
― Lemony Snicket

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