The Bad Beginning Trivia

Daniel Handler came up with his pen name when he was researching his book The Basic Eight. He didn't want to give his real name when requesting materials from random organizations, so he had them mail everything to one Lemony Snicket.
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Though he was hired as the original screenwriter for A Series of Unfortunate Events, Handler was replaced after writing an exhausting eight drafts of the movie.
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There's actually a drink called Lemony Snicket—it has white rum, mint, powdered sugar, and lemon juice in it. Fancy.
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Brett Helquist (the illustrator for A Series of Unfortunate Events) decided he wanted to be an artist while on a mission trip as a college student at Brigham Young University.
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The names in The Bad Beginning come not only from literary references, but from the author's desire to keep the setting super vague. In an interview, Daniel Handler said, "Violet is a fairly British name; Klaus is a fairly German name; Sunny is a fairly American name, and Olaf is a fairly Scandinavian name, and that creates a certain amount of confusion."
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