Snicket Lemony

Lemony Snicket is the pen name of American author Daniel Handler (born February 28, 1970).[1][2] Handler has published several children's books under the name,[3] most notably A Series of Unfortunate Events, which has sold over 60 million copies and spawned a 2004 film and TV series from 2017 to 2019. Lemony Snicket also serves as both the fictional narrator and a character in A Series of Unfortunate Events,[4] as well as the main character in its prequel, a four-part book series titled All the Wrong Questions.

In A Series of Unfortunate Events, Snicket investigates and re-tells the story of the Baudelaire orphans.[4] The series All the Wrong Questions is written as a mock-autobiography, and follows Snicket through his childhood and apprenticeship to the Volunteer Fire Department (V.F.D.)[5]

Snicket is also the subject of a fictional autobiography titled Lemony Snicket: The Unauthorized Autobiography[6] and a pamphlet called 13 Shocking Secrets You'll Wish You Never Knew About Lemony Snicket (released in promotion of The End).[7] 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.

In the film, Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events, Lemony Snicket is portrayed by Jude Law,[8] who documents the events of the film on a typewriter from inside a clock tower.[9] In the video game based on the film, his voice is provided by Tim Curry.[10] In the Series of Unfortunate Events Netflix series, Snicket is interpreted as an omniscient narrator chronicling the events of the Baudelaire children; he is portrayed by Patrick Warburton.[11]