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Snicket, Lemony Daniel Handler. Reproduced by permission.

Is lemony snicket a real person

Many writers publish their work under a pseudonym, or alternate name. But Daniel Handler, a. Lemony Snicket, may be the only writer to have three identities. As Catherine Mallette of the Fort Worth Star-Telegram explained, Handler is "an author who is simultaneously a fictional character named Snicket, a representative of a fictional character named Snicket, and a best-selling writer.

In addition, he has published eleven of the planned thirteen books in a series for children called A Series of Unfortunate Events under the name Lemony Snicket. Snicket, however, continually misses his public appearances, due to some unforeseen disaster, and Handler must step in and inform the masses of children who have come to see Snicket that they will have to settle for Snicket's representative—Handler.

Daniel Handler was born in in San Francisco, California, the son of an accountant and a college dean. An avid reader, he hated books that were overly happy. For college, he selected Wesleyan University. But he soon turned toward the longer form of fiction. After graduating from Wesleyan he won an Olin Fellowship, the funding from which allowed him to write his first novel.

Handler spent the mids working on his novel, and also wrote comedy sketches for a national radio show. He then moved to New York City, where he worked as a freelance book and movie critic. The Basic Eight was published in