--- title: Lemony Snicket Pledges $1M to Planned Parenthood description: The A Series of Unfortunate Events author offered support via Twitter canonical: https://time.com/4054889/planned-parenthood-lemony-snicket/ author: Daniel White article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-09-29T21:11:22.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:25:24.186Z og:title: Lemony Snicket Pledges $1M to Planned Parenthood og:description: The 'A Series of Unfortunate Events' author offered support via Twitter og:url: https://time.com/4054889/planned-parenthood-lemony-snicket/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt6a2ea35aab8f2e72/69886618ab6d77b8ff6a66f5/lemony-snicket-dan-handler.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 2560 og:image:height: 1440 og:image:alt: NEW YORK, NY - NOVEMBER 19: Daniel Handler attends 2014 National Book Awards on November 19, 2014 in New York City. 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Robin Marchant—Getty Images by [Daniel White](https://time.com/author/daniel-white/) ## Daniel White Sep 29, 2015 9:11 PM UTC Dan Handler, better known as _A Series of Unfortunate Events_ author Lemony Snicket, pledged along with his wife Tuesday to donate a million dollars to Planned Parenthood, in the midst of an [ongoing congressional investigation into the group.](http://time.com/4053715/planned-parenthood-video-cecile-richards-congress/) Handler’s wife, the illustrator Lisa Brown, called Planned Parenthood “a great organization that has provided top-quality health care for countless women and families in our lives. This year, Planned Parenthood has gone through a series of unfortunate events, and it felt right to make our support more public and more dramatic” in an interview with [BuzzFeed](http://www.buzzfeed.com/alexisnedd/the-author-of-a-series-of-unfortunate-events-just-donated-on#.riygQg8eL) > [](https://twitter.com/DanielHandler/status/648468194215243776) Planned Parenthood, which survived a lashing on the Hill today, thanked the Handlers. > [](https://twitter.com/PPFA/status/648485540870926336) ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4054889/planned-parenthood-lemony-snicket/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4054889/planned-parenthood-lemony-snicket/"},"headline":"Lemony Snicket Pledges $1M to Planned Parenthood","datePublished":"2015-09-29T21:11:22.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:25:24.186Z","description":"The A Series of Unfortunate Events author offered support via Twitter","url":"https://time.com/4054889/planned-parenthood-lemony-snicket/","keywords":["Newsfeed","celebrity","Planned Parenthood"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt6a2ea35aab8f2e72/69886618ab6d77b8ff6a66f5/lemony-snicket-dan-handler.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Daniel White","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/daniel-white/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt6a2ea35aab8f2e72/69886618ab6d77b8ff6a66f5/lemony-snicket-dan-handler.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"NEW YORK, NY - NOVEMBER 19: Daniel Handler attends 2014 National Book Awards on November 19, 2014 in New York City. 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