丹尼尔·韩德勒

丹尼尔·韩德勒（英语：Daniel Handler，1970年2月28日—）是一名美国作家及编剧，《波特莱尔大遇险》系列小说的作者，笔名为雷蒙·斯尼奇（Lemony Snicket）。其作品曾被改编为电影及电视剧。

生平

早年

韩德勒出生在加利福尼亚旧金山。母亲Sandra Handler（本姓Walpole）是一名退休教务长，曾就职于旧金山城市学院；父亲Louis Handler是一名会计，是来自德国的犹太难民。透过母亲的关系，韩德勒是英国作家休·沃波尔的远亲。韩德勒亦有一个名为Rebecca Handler的妹妹。

韩德勒自幼热衷于阅读，最喜爱的作家为William Keepers Maxwell。他曾就读于Commodore Sloat小学， Herbert Hoover初中以及Lowell高中。1992年从卫斯理大学毕业。

私人生活

韩德勒形容自己是一名世俗人文主义者，更是无神论者。

韩德勒已婚，妻子为平面画家丽萨·布朗（Lisa Brown）；两人在读大学时认识，育有一子欧托·韩德勒（Otto Handler，出生于2003年）。一家人定居于旧金山，屋子为爱德华时代的建筑。

作品

《波特莱尔大遇险》，共十三部

《墨渍镇谜团》，共四部

Daniel Handler (born February 28, 1970) is an American writer, musician, and television producer. He is best known for his children's book series A Series of Unfortunate Events and All the Wrong Questions, published under the pen name Lemony Snicket. The former was adapted into a film in 2004 as well as a Netflix series from 2017 to 2019.

Handler has published adult novels and a stage play under his real name, along with other children's books under the Snicket pseudonym. His first book, a satirical fiction piece titled The Basic Eight, was rejected by many publishers for its dark subject matter.

Handler has also played the accordion in several bands, and he appeared on the indie pop band The Magnetic Fields' album 69 Love Songs.

Life

Handler was born in San Francisco, California, the son of Sandra Handler (née Walpole), a retired City College of San Francisco dean, and Louis Handler, an accountant. His father was a Jewish refugee from Germany in 1939. His mother is distantly related to British writer Hugh Walpole. Of his early religious upbringing, Handler said, "I had a fairly standard Reform Jewish upbringing, I guess, in terms of the religious side of it." He has a younger sister, Rebecca Handler. He attended Commodore Sloat Elementary, Herbert Hoover Middle School, and Lowell High School. He graduated from Wesleyan University in 1992. He was awarded the 1992 Connecticut Student Poet Prize, which he has said he won by ripping off Elizabeth Bishop. He is an alumnus of the San Francisco Boys Chorus.

Handler has been a voracious reader since childhood. The first book he bought as a child was The Blue Aspic by Edward Gorey, of whom he is a fan. He enjoyed the writings of William Maxwell and Roald Dahl.

He is married to Lisa Brown, an illustrator he met in college. They have a child, born in 2003. They live in an Edwardian house in San Francisco.

Handler has expressed ambivalence about his wealth and the expectations it creates. He often donates money to charitable causes. Handler and his wife have also donated $1,000,000 to Planned Parenthood, and he has supported the Occupy Wall Street movement.

Handler describes himself as a secular humanist and "pretty much" an atheist. He describes himself as having developed a "feminist consciousness" while in college.

Professional work

Books

Six of Handler's major works have been published under his name. His first, The Basic Eight, was rejected by many publishers for its subject matter and tone (a dark view of a teenage girl's life). Handler has said the novel was rejected 37 times before being published in 1999.

Watch Your Mouth, his second novel, was completed before publication of The Basic Eight. It follows a more operatic theme, complete with stage directions and various acts. Watch Your Mouth's second half replaces the opera troupe with the form of a 12-step recovery program, linguistically undergone by the protagonist. In April 2005, Handler published Adverbs, a collection of short stories that he says are "about love." It was followed in 2011 by Why We Broke Up, which received a 2012 Michael L. Printz honor award. Handler's 2015 novel We Are Pirates is about a modern-age pirate who "wants to be an old-fashioned kind of pirate". His most recent novel, All the Dirty Parts, was published in 2017 and "takes the blunt and constant presence of a male teen's sexuality and considers it with utmost seriousness".

Handler served as a judge for the PEN/Phyllis Naylor Working Writer Fellowship in 2012. In 2016, he founded Per Diem Press, a poetry competition for young writers. He awarded $1,000 to three winners and published a chapbook of their work.