Ms.Unfortunate
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Post by Ms.Unfortunate on Mar 19, 2012 18:20:16 GMT -5
[shadow=red,left,300]I personally think that Lemony is pen name or a "Imaginary person" I think Daniel Handler is the real author and is Definitely Lemony Snicket.[/shadow]
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Post by Christmas Chief on Mar 19, 2012 18:33:08 GMT -5
Correct. Daniel Handler, now aged 42, is the author behind the Snicket pseudonym used to pen ASOUE, The Composer is Dead, 13 Words, and a number of other works the files of which you may browse here. The name was created spontaneously over a phone call to avoid right-wing promotional mail when Handler was doing research for The Basic Eight. |
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Post by Groge on Mar 20, 2012 2:50:26 GMT -5
It's sort of a fact that Daniel Handler is the author and writes under the pen name, Lemony Snicket. Silly question really
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Post by B. on Mar 20, 2012 4:43:07 GMT -5
The books were written by Daniel Handler under the name Lemony Snicket. One of the clever things though, is that Lemony Snicket is very much a character in the books. He is often thought to be the taxi driver in TRR, TWW and TPP and he is mentioned in TGG as being on the Queequeg for some time. He is also thought to be the man with the hidden face in the photograph on page thirteen of the Snicket file. As a running joke he sometimes shows up for interviews as "Mr.Handler- Lemony Snicket's official representative."
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Post by Dante on Mar 20, 2012 10:05:51 GMT -5
The name was created spontaneously over a phone call to avoid right-wing promotional mail when Handler was doing research for The Basic Eight. Handler later admitted to making that up; apparently he'd been using the name years earlier to write prank letters to newspapers, expressing outrage over the most inoffensive item he could find. Note also that Lemony Snicket is not, as was the baffling claim in one news article I've seen recently, really called "Danny Walter." |
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Post by Groge on Mar 20, 2012 10:43:33 GMT -5
Brunch is spot on. Yes he writes under a pen name but he has created that into an actual character within the series. In genius really! That part of the books always fascinated me
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Post by B. on Mar 20, 2012 11:02:38 GMT -5
I believe this is the article mentioned above. The errors are pretty bad, it says at one point: |
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Post by Groge on Mar 20, 2012 11:18:05 GMT -5
Danny Walter! Haha! Shouldn't they have Googled Lemony Snicket first! Like the "handler" part though. 2 meanings. Most people would take it as another word for representative others his real name. Crazy!
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Post by Christmas Chief on Mar 20, 2012 16:08:44 GMT -5
The name was created spontaneously over a phone call to avoid right-wing promotional mail when Handler was doing research for The Basic Eight. Handler later admitted to making that up; apparently he'd been using the name years earlier to write prank letters to newspapers, expressing outrage over the most inoffensive item he could find. I remember he said that used to be a hobby of his, but when did he admit to making the original story up? |
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Post by Dante on Mar 20, 2012 16:26:31 GMT -5
What was invented was that the mailing list incident was when he came up with the name, as I understand it; the event occurred, but "Lemony Snicket" had been around before then.
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Post by Christmas Chief on Mar 20, 2012 16:50:19 GMT -5
Ah, OK, so it's only a slight exaggeration.
The curious thing about the article is that it says WWBU was written under Snicket's own name - which is clearly not Walter. Where could that have come from, I wonder?
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