Editing Daniel Handler (section)

===Books===
Six of Handler's major works have been published under his name.<ref name="sfchron_dirty">{{cite news|last1=Bennett|first1=Hayden|title='All the Dirty Parts,' by Daniel Handler|url=http://www.sfchronicle.com/books/article/All-the-Dirty-Parts-by-Daniel-Handler-12162710.php|access-date=5 September 2017|work=San Francisco Chronicle|date=1 September 2017}}</ref> 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.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.avclub.com/daniel-handler-1798208806|title=Daniel Handler|website=The A.V. Club|date=November 16, 2005 |language=en-us|access-date=2020-03-18}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book|url=https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/daniel-handler/the-basic-eight/|title=The Basic Eight|publisher=Kirkus Reviews|language=en}}</ref>

''[[Watch Your Mouth (novel)|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.{{citation needed|date=March 2018}} In April 2005, Handler published ''[[Adverbs (novel)|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.<ref>[http://www.ala.org/yalsa/booklistsawards/bookawards/printzaward/previouswinners/winners Ala.org]</ref> Handler's 2015 novel ''[[We Are Pirates]]''<ref>[http://columbiajournal.org/issues/issue-51/journal-51-table-of-contents/daniel-handler Columbiajournal.org] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140407072505/http://columbiajournal.org/issues/issue-51/journal-51-table-of-contents/daniel-handler |date=April 7, 2014 }}</ref> is about a modern-age pirate who "wants to be an old-fashioned kind of pirate."<ref>{{cite news| url=http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/life/books/news/2006-10-10-lemony-snicket-main_x.htm | work=USA Today | first=Bob | last=Minzesheimer | title=An 'Unfortunate' end | date=October 11, 2006}}</ref><ref>{{cite book | title=We Are Pirates: A Novel |isbn = 978-1608196883|last1 = Handler|first1 = Daniel|date = February 3, 2015| publisher=Bloomsbury Publishing USA }}</ref> His most recent novel, ''All the Dirty Parts'', was published in 2017<ref>{{cite web|title=All the Dirty Parts|url=https://www.bloomsbury.com/us/all-the-dirty-parts-9781632868060/|publisher=Bloomsbury Publishing|access-date=5 September 2017}}</ref> and "takes the blunt and constant presence of a male teen's sexuality and considers it with utmost seriousness".<ref name="sfchron_dirty" />

Handler served as a judge for the [[PEN/Phyllis Naylor Working Writer Fellowship]] in 2012.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.pen.org/literature/2012-penphyllis-naylor-working-writer-fellowship |title=2012 PEN/Phyllis Naylor Working Writer Fellowship |access-date= February 6, 2013 |work=[[PEN American Center]]|date=November 15, 2012 }}</ref> In 2016, he founded Per Diem Press, a poetry competition for young writers.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.sfchronicle.com/entertainment/garchik/article/Daniel-Handler-spends-a-windfall-on-poetry-10814414.php|title=Daniel Handler spends a windfall on poetry|work=San Francisco Chronicle|access-date=2018-06-05}}</ref> He awarded $1,000 to three winners and published a chapbook of their work.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.poetryfoundation.org/harriet/2017/07/pending-daniel-handler-crowns-three-poets-per-diem-winners|title=Daniel Handler Crowns Three Poets Per Diem Winners by Harriet Staff|date=2018-06-05|website=Poetry Foundation|language=en-us|others=Poetry Foundation|access-date=2018-06-05}}</ref>

====Lemony Snicket====
{{Main|Lemony Snicket}}
[[File:Daniel Handler at Book People.PNG|thumb|right|Handler at a book signing in 2006]]
Handler wrote the bestselling series of 13 novels ''[[A Series of Unfortunate Events]]'' under the Snicket pseudonym from 1999 to 2006.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/live-feed/netflix-adapting-lemony-snickets-a-746666|title=Netflix Adapting Lemony Snicket's 'A Series of Unfortunate Events' Into TV Show|website=The Hollywood Reporter|date=November 5, 2014|language=en|access-date=2020-03-18}}</ref> The series is about three orphaned children who experience increasingly terrible events after their parents die and their home burns. Snicket acts as the orphans' narrator and biographer.<ref>"Tortuous Tales". A Series of Unfortunate Events. n.p. Retrieved 2012-04-16.</ref> Handler narrated the [[audiobook]]s for three books in the series before handing back the narrating job to the original narrator, [[Tim Curry]].{{citation needed|date=March 2018}}

From 2012 to 2015, Handler published the four-part series ''[[All the Wrong Questions]]'' under the name Lemony Snicket; the books explore Snicket's childhood and V.F.D. apprenticeship in the failing town Stain'd-by-the-Sea.<ref>{{Cite news|last=Healy|first=Christopher|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/14/books/review/all-the-wrong-questions-a-lemony-snicket-series.html|title=Unsolved Mysteries|date=2012-10-12|work=The New York Times|access-date=2020-03-18|language=en-US|issn=0362-4331}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.deseret.com/2012/11/3/20509168/mysteries-abound-in-lemony-snicket-s-new-all-the-wrong-questions-series|title=Mysteries abound in Lemony Snicket's new All the Wrong Questions series|last=Rappleye|first=Christine|date=2012-11-03|website=Deseret News|language=en|access-date=2020-03-18}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.csmonitor.com/Books/chapter-and-verse/2015/0116/Lemony-Snicket-s-All-the-Wrong-Questions-series-will-be-personalized-for-young-readers|title=Lemony Snicket's 'All the Wrong Questions' series will be personalized for young readers|date=2015-01-16|work=Christian Science Monitor|access-date=2020-03-18|issn=0882-7729}}</ref> He has also written other children's novels under the Snicket name, including companion books to his two Snicket series,<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2014/10/postmodernism-for-kids/381739/|title=The Postmodern Brilliance of "A Series of Unfortunate Events"|last=Cruz|first=Lenika|date=2014-10-23|website=The Atlantic|language=en-US|access-date=2020-03-18}}</ref> and children's books such as ''[[The Composer is Dead]]''<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=101669557|title=Lemony Snicket's Musical Murder Mystery|website=NPR.org|language=en|access-date=2020-03-18}}</ref> and ''[[The Latke Who Couldn't Stop Screaming]]''.<ref>{{Cite magazine|last=Blum|first=Matt|url=https://www.wired.com/2011/12/latke-who-couldnt-stop-screaming/|title=Lemony Snicket's The Latke Who Couldn't Stop Screaming (GeekDad Wayback Machine)|date=2011-12-10|magazine=Wired|access-date=2020-03-18|issn=1059-1028}}</ref>