An Evening with Lemony Snicket: Daniel Handler in Person
November 25 @ 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm
$15
Join us for an unforgettable evening with the one and only Daniel Handler, also known as Lemony Snicket! Handler’s incredible body of work spans a huge variety of genres and age groups. His works include the beloved children’s books A Series of Unfortunate Events, adult works such as The Basic Eight, a variety of stage plays, and even accordion performances with bands like The Magnetic Fields.
Daniel Handler will be visiting us during Thanksgiving week for the perfect family event, an evening of selected readings and a moderated Q&A.
About Daniel Handler:
Daniel Handler is the author of seven novels, including Why We Broke Up, We Are Pirates, All The Dirty Parts and Bottle Grove. His new book on writing And Then? And Then? What Else? is forthcoming from Liverlight/W.W. Norton in 2024.
As Lemony Snicket, he is responsible for numerous books for children, including the thirteen-volume A Series of Unfortunate Events, the four-volume All the Wrong Questions, and The Dark, which won the Charlotte Zolotow Award.
Mr. Snicket’s first book for readers of all ages, Poison for Breakfast, was published by Liveright/W.W. Norton in 2021.
Handler has received commissions from the San Francisco Symphony, Berkeley Repertory Theatre and the Royal Shakespeare Company, and has collaborated with artist Maira Kalman on a series of books for the Museum of Modern Art in New York, and with musicians Stephin Merritt (of the Magnetic Fields), Benjamin Gibbard (of Death Cab for Cutie), Colin Meloy (of the Decemberists) and Torquil Campbell (of Stars).
His books have sold more than 70 million copies and have been translated into 40 languages, and have been adapted for film, stage and television, including the recent adaptation of A Series of Unfortunate Events for which he was awarded both the Peabody and the Writers Guild of America awards.
He lives in San Francisco with the illustrator Lisa Brown, to whom he is married and with whom he has collaborated on several books and one son.
