Lemony Snicket. Lemony Snicket is the pen name of American novelist Daniel Handler (born February 28, 1970). Snicket is the author of several children's biographies, serving as the narrator of A Series of Unfortunate Events (his best-known work) and appearing as a character within the series. Because of this, the name "Lemony Snicket" may refer to either the fictional character or the real person.
This article deals primarily with the character. As a character, Snicket is a harried, troubled writer and researcher falsely accused of felonies and is continuously hunted by the police and his enemies: the fire-starting side of the secret organization Volunteer Fire Department (V.F.D.). As a child, he was kidnapped and inducted as a "neophyte" into V.F.D., where he was trained in rhetoric and sent on seemingly pointless missions while all connections to his former life, apart from his siblings Jacques and Kit (who were also kidnapped and inducted), were severed.
Name origin[edit] Narrator and character[edit] Ruth White (children's author) Ruth C. White (born March 15, 1942) is an American children's writer. Her novel Belle Prater's Boy was a Newbery Honor Book in 1997. Although White's family were extremely poor, her parents had a great love of literature. She was educated at small, badly resourced county schools, but praises her "excellent, caring teachers".[1] When she was six years old, her father, who was a coal miner, was killed in a brawl (and the attacker sent to prison for 20 years).
Her mother moved to a place near the town of Whitewood, Virginia. When White was in the eighth grade the family moved to Michigan, but she returned to Grundy to finish high-school while living with an aunt and uncle. White's book Belle Prater's Boy was named a 1997 Newbery Honor book. Other sources. ALAN v22n2 - An Interview with Ruth White. Ruth White. Lewis Carroll. Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (/ˈtʃɑrlz ˈlʌtwɪdʒ ˈdɒdsən/;[1] [2] 27 January 1832 – 14 January 1898), better known by his pen name, Lewis Carroll (/ˈkærəl/), was an English writer, mathematician, logician, Anglican deacon and photographer. His most famous writings are Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, its sequel Through the Looking-Glass, which includes the poem Jabberwocky, and the poem The Hunting of the Snark, all examples of the genre of literary nonsense. He is noted for his facility at word play, logic, and fantasy. There are societies in many parts of the world (including the United Kingdom, Japan, the United States, and New Zealand[3]) dedicated to the enjoyment and promotion of his works and the investigation of his life.
Antecedents[edit] Dodgson was born in the little parsonage of Daresbury in Cheshire near the towns of Warrington and Runcorn,[8] the eldest boy but already the third child of the four-and-a-half-year-old marriage. Eight more children were to follow. Education[edit]