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  NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Daniel Handler
Daniel Handler at a party celebrating the publication of The End, the thirteenth and final installment of A Series of Unfortunate Events, October 12, 2006, in New York City.
Handler was born in San Francisco, California, and is an alumnus of the San Francisco Boys Chorus and graduate of Lowell High School and Herbert Hoover Middle School.
Daniel Handler evidently is adamantly opposed to censorship.
www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Daniel-Handler   (3289 words)

  
 Lemony Snicket - Daniel Handler Biography
Daniel Handler was born in 1970 and raised in San Francisco, where he lives now.
As a young child, Daniel was acutely aware of the fact that terrible things sometimes happen to children.
Daniel Handler's accordion playing is featured on The Magnetic Field's (the band of Stephen Merritt, who wrote the Count Olaf song) album "69 Love Songs".
www.lemony-snicket-stuff.com /daniel_handler_biography.html   (752 words)

  
 Daniel Handler Bio - Daniel Handler Biography - Daniel Handler Stories
Daniel Handler (born February 28, 1970 in San Francisco), also professionally known as Lemony Snicket, is an American author, screenwriter, and accordionist.
Handler originally came up with "Lemony Snicket" as a pseudonym to use rather than placing his real name on the mailing lists of several right-wing organizations he was researching for one of his novels.
Daniel: For most people, the two primary relationships they have are with their families or romantic ones.
www.tv.com /daniel-handler/person/278157/biography.html   (1326 words)

  
 Daniel Handler
Daniel Handler is an occasional author and even more occasional accordionist.
The dulcet tones of his accordion playing can be heard most notably on The Magnetic Fields' album, 69 Love Songs.
Under the pen name Lemony Snicket, Handler has written a series of children's novels, A Series of Unfortunate Events.
www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/da/Daniel_Handler.html   (72 words)

  
 CNN.com - Lemony Snicket reaches 'The End' - Oct 5, 2006
Lemony Snicket, aka Daniel Handler, has concluded "A Series of Unfortunate Events," his dreadful (a word that here literally means "full of dread") 13-volume series about the adventures of the orphaned Baudelaire children.
Handler -- who is "all for the escalation of formality" -- and his illustrator, Brett Helquist, finished "The End" earlier this year, though "finished" is not a word he uses casually.
Handler's planned projects, still in the discussion stage, is a book co-written with a religious fundamentalist in which the two authors ask each other questions about faith.
www.cnn.com /2006/SHOWBIZ/books/10/05/handler.snicket/index.html   (978 words)

  
 Amazon.fr : The Basic Eight: Livres en anglais: Daniel Handler,Handler   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Handler deftly keeps the mood light even as the plot careens forward, and as FlanAnever a reliable narratorAbecomes increasingly unhinged.
Handler's confident satire is not only cheeky but packed with downright lovable characters whose youthful misadventures keep the novel neatly balanced between absurdity and poignancy.
Handler's writing is witty and perceptive, especially as schools and society are parodied, and he makes clever use of vocabulary and study questions.
www.amazon.fr /Basic-Eight-Daniel-Handler/dp/0312198337   (630 words)

  
 Daniel Handler Interview - Redivider - A Journal of New Literature from Emerson College
Handler’s first novel, The Basic Eight—a case-study in narrator unreliability that unfolds like a Beverly Hills 90210 episode scripted by Nabokov—rose to the top of my pantheon of The Best Books Ever, where it remained until it was displaced last summer by Haruki Murakami’s The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle.
I believe it is a mistake to pigeonhole a writer of Handler’s evident ambition and scope as a children’s author.
Daniel Handler responded to my questions via email in the late summer of 2003 from his home in San Francisco where he lives with his wife, the illustrator and graphic designer Lisa Brown.
pages.emerson.edu /publications/redivider/InterviewDHandler.html   (3424 words)

  
 Daniel in the kids' den - Books - Entertainment - theage.com.au
So Handler, at 36, has the life of a novelist - writing full-time in San Francisco, in the seaside house that Snicket bought - without the angst.
As Snicket, Handler writes fast: the 13th and final volume in the series is due in October, only seven years after the first.
Handler and his wife, Lisa Brown, an illustrator, have a son, Otto, who is two.
www.theage.com.au /news/books/daniel-in-the-kids-den/2006/06/22/1150845312255.html   (1089 words)

  
 Amazon.fr : Adverbs: Livres en anglais: Daniel Handler   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Handler brings linguistic pyrotechnics to a set of encounters: gay, straight, platonic and all degrees of dysfunctional.
Handler began his career with the coming-of-age novel The Basic Eight; this lovely, lilting book is a kind of After School Special for adults that dramatizes love's cross-purposes with panache: "Surely somebody will arrive, in a taxi perhaps, attractively, artfully, aggressively, or any other way it is done."
Handler -- better known as Lemony Snicket, the author of the enormously popular kid-lit "Series of Unfortunate Events" -- has given his adult readers a lot to ponder as they flip over these pieces and work to put them together.
www.amazon.fr /Adverbs-Daniel-Handler/dp/0060724412   (792 words)

  
 Daniel Handler | The A.V. Club
Handler has also played accordion with various small ensembles, and with The Magnetic Fields, most notably on 69 Love Songs.
But in spite of all his other projects, Handler is still best known as Lemony Snicket, the broody, dour pseudonymous author of the gothic children's books collectively known as A Series Of Unfortunate Events.
Daniel Handler: I guess through naïveté, which is pretty much a motif in my professional life.
www.avclub.com /content/node/42625/1/1   (1938 words)

  
 Daniel Handler | The Onion - America's Finest News Source
Handler has also played accordion with various small ensembles, and with The Magnetic Fields, most notably on 69 Love Songs.
But in spite of all his other projects, Handler is still best known as Lemony Snicket, the broody, dour pseudonymous author of the gothic children's books collectively known as A Series Of Unfortunate Events.
Daniel Handler: I guess through naïveté, which is pretty much a motif in my professional life.
www.theonion.com /content/node/42625/1/1   (1540 words)

  
 Adverbs: A Novel by Daniel Handler
Daniel Handler writes each of these absurd stories with exquisite intelligence and deadpan humor.
"Daniel Handler is one of the most witty wordsmiths I have read in the last 10 years.
Daniel Handler is a master of clever wordplay and those readers who love the English language will appreciate the way he weaves recurring themes and characters into stories exploring the many ways we love one another.
www.harpercollins.com /books/9780060724412/Adverbs/index.aspx   (1534 words)

  
 Amazon.ca: Watch Your Mouth: Books: Daniel Handler   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Handler (The Basic Eight) sets up the first half of his comically warped novel as a mock opera, complete with stage and orchestra directions.
It is admirable of Handler that he can even muster the bravery to write such a graphic novel, but it is an amazing mix between Jewish Folklore, the opera, and a messed up person's life.
In case you haven't heard, Daniel Handler is the mastermind behind Lemony Snicket, author of the unlucky adventures of the three Baudelaire orphans.
www.amazon.ca /Watch-Your-Mouth-Daniel-Handler/dp/006093817X   (1619 words)

  
 Amazon.ca: The Basic Eight: Books: Daniel Handler   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Handler brillaintly captures the teen angst and misguided love that all of us have expeirenced.
Daniel Handler is just as hilarious as himself as he is as Lemony Snicket.
I thought Daniels' language was witty and enjoyable - he dubbed many well know places and people with names that were just a bit of a twist.
www.amazon.ca /Basic-Eight-Daniel-Handler/dp/0312198337   (1409 words)

  
 A series of fortunate events for author Daniel Handler, a.k.a. Lemony Snicket, including forthcoming film, fatherhood   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Handler reckons that the final budget is considerably larger than the budget that was in dispute a year ago.
Handler was involved in an early screenplay, but the final script -- based on the first three books -- was written by Hollywood veteran Robert Gordon ("Men in Black II").
Handler not only shares his parents' love of opera, he even took to the stage himself in the early '80s, singing with the San Francisco Boys Chorus in San Francisco Opera productions of "La Boheme," "Carmen," "Tosca" and more.
www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2003/10/13/DD138106.DTL   (1921 words)

  
 Powell's Books - Watch Your Mouth by Daniel Handler
"...Handler is a writer who is more than ready to pick up Vonnegut's torch and write the kind of deftly funny absurdist story that both horrifies with its subject matter and hooks you with its humor."
In Watch Your Mouth, Daniel Handler takes "different" to a whole new level...
Daniel Handler is the author of the novels The Basic Eight, Watch Your Mouth, and as Lemony Snicket, a sequence of children's novels collectively entitled A Series of Unfortunate Events.
www.powells.com /cgi-bin/biblio?isbn=006093817x   (586 words)

  
 Adverbs by Daniel Handler from HarperCollins Publishers Australia
In a series of intersecting narratives that explore the humorous and heartbreaking variations on that ineffable state of being, Handler crafts a moving and shifting story that examines the frustrating glory of this most troublesome of emotions.
In Adverbs, Daniel Handler reveals to us how love, this most universal of themes, is also the most unknown.
Daniel Handler is the author of the fictions The Basic Eight and Watch Your Mouth, and, as Lemony Snicket, the enormously popular children's novels in A Series of Unfortunate Events.
www.harpercollins.com.au /global_scripts/product_catalog/book_xml.asp?isbn=0732282357&tc=rg   (445 words)

  
 Not so unfortunate | By genre | Guardian Unlimited Books
As Daniel Handler, he's just another aspiring author of adult fiction.
As well as being two authors, Handler is quite a character.
This is typical of the remarks he makes, which are droll and arch and often culminate in a camp giggle.
books.guardian.co.uk /departments/generalfiction/story/0,,1792233,00.html   (1367 words)

  
 Daniel Handler interview | www.somethingjewish.co.uk
Over the past few years, author Daniel Handler has found fame as the man behind Lemony Snicket’s A Series Of Unfortunate Events — the best-selling children’s saga which follows the misfortunes of the Baudelaire orphans.
The book, which features a string of characters drifting in and out of troubled romantic relationships, is Handler’s third novel for adults, the other two being high school thriller The Basic Eight, and the surreal fl comedy Watch Your Mouth, which gives the Golem legend a creepy modern makeover.
Handler talks exclusively to SJ’s Caroline Westbrook about both Adverbs and the forthcoming Snicket finale, as well as revealing a little bit more about the Handler family history and offering his views on Jewish cab drivers…
www.somethingjewish.co.uk /articles/1914_daniel_handler_inter.htm   (1374 words)

  
 Amazon.de: Adverbs: English Books: Daniel Handler   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Handler, best known for the darkly comic Series of Unfortunate Events novels (written under the Lemony Snicket pseudonym), returns to adult fiction with these witty--but ultimately wearying--ruminations on the precarious state of love.
Although Handler's visions are often apocalyptic (San Francisco residents fret over a subterranean volcano about to erupt), in rare moments, he waxes both wistful and wise.
"Soundly" reveals the bond between a woman and her dying childhood friend: "She and I were cut from the same cloth, an angry odd quilt." Whether catering to kids or adults, Handler's humor is decidedly offbeat.
www.amazon.de /Adverbs-Daniel-Handler/dp/0060724412   (393 words)

  
 Amazon.com: The Basic Eight: Books: Daniel Handler   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Daniel Handler hits all his clich targets right on the bullseye: ridiculously sophisticated teen dialogue, adults who aren't there or who "just don't understand," the token gay guy, the outrage of being called a "fat bitch," and shopping for shoes (a lot).
I know, I know, Handler was choosing an oblique literary reference and not an actual street drug, but just in case anyone was wondering.
Handler captures the essence of high school friendship and heartbreak with great sympathy and I found that even the mundane events of the story touched my heart.
www.amazon.com /Basic-Eight-Daniel-Handler/dp/0312253737   (2255 words)

  
 Daniel Handler Summary
Daniel Handler has a fine sense of timing.
As a writer for adults, he has produced two popular novels which have had an eerie prescience to them: his 1999 The Basic Eight deals, partly in a tongue-in-cheek manner, with a teenage murder, and hit the shelv...
Daniel James Handler (born February 28, 1970 in San Francisco), is an American author, screenwriter, and accordionist.
www.bookrags.com /Daniel_Handler   (123 words)

  
 Amazon.de: The Basic Eight: English Books: Daniel Handler,Handler   (Site not responding. Last check: )
While I was reading it, I was trying to figure out why I hadn't heard more about Daniel Handler; he is a very talented writer and brilliant at conveying tone.
Daniel Handler does a GREAT job at giving us readers engaging, realistic characters.
Handler captures the setting so perfectly that at times I had to put it down and go back to my adult life.
www.amazon.de /Basic-Eight-Daniel-Handler/dp/0312198337   (1329 words)

  
 The BEATRICE Interview: 2000
Lots of Lemony Snicket fans come to look at this web page every day, but this interview is mostly about the books Daniel Handler has written for adults, and there's some stuff in here you might want to look at on your own before deciding whether you want your kids to read it.
Daniel Handler had just moved back to San Francisco after several years in New York City when I spoke with him by phone in July 2000.
As a writer, you want to reach the culture and have connections with people, but the truth is, when that boils down literally to people who obsessively reread your books, you don't always want that.
www.beatrice.com /interviews/handler   (1906 words)

  
 Amazon.com: Adverbs: A Novel: Books: Daniel Handler   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Handler would probably answer that we shouldn't focus on who's doing the action, but how it's done.
Judging by the smug copy Handler has written for the inside of the dust jacket, this is intentional.
I believe he is a genius and one of the most talented modern-day authors, but he really let me down with this book.
www.amazon.com /Adverbs-Novel-Daniel-Handler/dp/0060724412   (2299 words)

  
 KQED | Forum: Daniel Handler
Friday Forum talks to author Daniel Handler, also known as Lemony Snicket.
Daniel Handler (aka Lemony Snicket), author of "The Basic Eight" and "Watch Your Mouth," as well as a series of children's books under the pseudonym Lemony Snicket.
He wrote the screenplay for the movie Rick which opens tonight at the Opera Plaza in San Francisco and the Shattuck Cinemas in Berkeley.
www.kqed.org /epArchive/R410221000   (132 words)

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