Daniel Handler is an American author, screenwriter, and accordionist. He is best known for his work under the pen name Lemony Snicket as the author of A Series of Unfortunate Events and, to a lesser degree, All the Wrong Questions, a prequel to it. Handler was born in San Francisco, California, the son of Sandra Handler Day (née Walpole), an opera singer and retired City College of San Francisco Dean, and Lou Handler, an accountant. His father was a Jewish refugee from Germany, and his…
