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===Remark about race=== At the November 2014 [[National Book Award]]s ceremony, Handler made a controversial remark after author [[Jacqueline Woodson]] was presented with an award for ''[[Brown Girl Dreaming]]''. During the ceremony, he said that Woodson was allergic to watermelon, a reference to the racist [[watermelon stereotype]]. His comments were immediately criticized;<ref>{{cite news |last=Gambino |first=Lauren |date= 20 November 2014 |title=Lemony Snicket apologizes for watermelon joke about black writer at National Book Awards |url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2014/nov/20/lemony-snicket-apologizes-for-watermelon-joke-about-black-writer-at-national-book-awards |newspaper=[[The Guardian]] |location=[[London]] |access-date=21 November 2014 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://blogs.forward.com/the-shmooze/209629/lemony-snickets-series-of-unfortunate-racist-jokes/?|title=Lemony Snicket's Series of Unfortunate Racist Jokes|work=The Jewish Daily Forward|last=Cohen|first=Anne|date=November 20, 2014|access-date=30 November 2014}}</ref> Handler apologized and donated $10,000 to [[We Need Diverse Books]], and promised to match donations up to $100,000.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/style-blog/wp/2014/11/21/daniel-handler-does-more-than-apologize-for-his-watermelon-joke/?tid=pm_lifestyle_pop|title=Daniel Handler does more than apologize for his 'watermelon' joke|newspaper=[[The Washington Post]]|last=Ohlheiser|first=Abby|date=21 November 2014|access-date=30 November 2014}}</ref> In a ''New York Times'' [[op-ed]] published shortly thereafter, "The Pain of the Watermelon Joke", Woodson wrote that "in making light of that deep and troubled history" with his joke, Handler had come from a place of ignorance, but underscored the need for her mission to "give people a sense of this country's brilliant and brutal history, so no one ever thinks they can walk onto a stage one evening and laugh at another's too often painful past".<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2014/11/29/opinion/the-pain-of-the-watermelon-joke.html|title=The Pain of the Watermelon Joke|last=Woodson|first=Jacqueline|author-link=Jacqueline Woodson|work=[[The New York Times]]|date=28 November 2014|access-date=30 November 2014}}</ref><ref>{{cite magazine|url=https://time.com/3610303/jacqueline-woodson-watermelon-racist-joke-lemony-snicket-daniel-handler-national-book-awards/|title=Jacqueline Woodson Responds to Racist Watermelon Joke|magazine=[[Time (magazine)|Time]]|last=Frizell|first=Sam|date=29 November 2014|access-date=30 November 2014}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/11/29/jacqueline-woodson-racist-joke_n_6240342.html|title=Award-Winning Author Jacqueline Woodson Responds To Racist Joke|work=[[The Huffington Post]]|publisher=[[Associated Press]]|date=29 November 2014|access-date=30 November 2014}}</ref>
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