Lemony snicket biography daniel handler childhood

Many thought Mr Lemony Snicket's career in journalism was over after he was sacked from the Daily Punctilio. Still others felt that he would be too aloof to patronise mere newsprint after approximately one in three of the world's children had bought copies of his 12 - so far - episodic tomes entitled A Series of Unfortunate Events.

Lemony snicket biography daniel handler childhood

And when Jim Carrey, no less, starred in a moving picture based upon said tales of the wretched Baudelaire children and their pursuit by the villainous Count Olaf, it was said Mr Snicket had become too exalted for mere mortals to converse with.

But extensive investigations by the Guardian's most senior editors revealed the existence of a transcript of a long-distance conversation.

In said transcript, Mr Snicket was found to be talking to a musician, one Stephin Merritt. Further investigations, conducted in conditions of the greatest secrecy, revealed that this Mr Merritt had recorded a number of rec