Daniel handler timeline biography

His parents met at the opera, but his mother is not an opera singer as has been widely reported due to a misinterpreted joke he made in an early interview. His father was a CPA who fled Germany as a young boy; Handler says "I knew about the Holocaust at an earlier age than most people learn about it, I think, and so the idea that the world could suddenly go very wrong, and that it had no bearing on what sort of person you were, sunk in pretty early.

And it's affected my politics and my writing and my life.

Daniel handler family

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 , and needed to contact for research purposes some right-wing political organizations and religious groups, but didn't want his name to be on their mailing list. When someone asked him his name, out popped "Lemony Snicket.

His first novel, The Basic Eight was set in an austere academy not unlike his own high school; Watch Your Mouth followed in , and Adverbs was published in When asked to comment on the success of the Lemony Snicket series, Handler says "I find it mind-boggling I think I got lucky - there's not really a trick to getting published. Everybody knows how to do it.