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Lemony Snicket.

Writer · United States · b. 1970

Lemony Snicket (Daniel Handler): American author behind A Series of Unfortunate Events and the picture book The Dark — dry, gothic-comic middle-grade for ages 9–13.

Lemony Snicket is the pen name of American author Daniel Handler, born in 1970. As Snicket he is best known for A Series of Unfortunate Events, the thirteen-volume middle-grade gothic-comedy series (1999–2006) following the Baudelaire orphans through escalating chaos at the hands of Count Olaf, which has been adapted to film and Netflix series, and remains a defining 9–13 reading shelf. He also writes the All the Wrong Questions YA mysteries and picture books including The Dark, 13 Words and Goldfish Ghost. The Snicket voice is dry, ornately worded, gleefully pessimistic, a strong fit for funny-bone children with a taste for the gothic. A core canonical-contemporary middle-grade voice.