Lemony Snicket - About the Author
Lemony Snicket has spent the last several years researching the travails of the Baudelaire orphans, Violet, Klaus, and Sunny. His findings are being published by HarperCollins as A Series of Unfortunate Events. Each book in the series recounts the efforts of the evil Count Olaf, a distant cousin of the orphans, as he tries to snatch away the enormous fortune the Baudelaire parents left behind. The first book, The Bad Beginning, was released in 1999 and the series currently includes ten titles. The most recent offering is The Slippery Slope. Also available from HarperCollins is Lemony Snicket: The Unauthorized Autobiography, which chronicles the unfortunate life of the author. Eternally pursued and insatiably inquisitive, a hermit and a nomad, Mr. Snicket wishes you nothing but the best.
Due to the world-wide web of conspiracy which surrounds him, Mr. Snicket often communicates with the general public through his literary, legal and social representative, Daniel Handler. Mr. Handler has had a relatively uneventful life, being born in San Francisco, attending Wesleyan and authoring two books for adults, The Basic Eight and Watch Your Mouth, neither of which are anywhere near as dreadful as Mr. Snicket's. Mr. Handler lives in San Francisco with his wife, Lisa Brown, a graphic artist and illustrator, and their son. Like Mr. Snicket, Mr. Handler wishes you nothing but the best.
-- Courtesy of HarperCollins Publishers
