--- 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=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: NEW YORK, NY - NOVEMBER 19: Daniel Handler attends 2014 National Book Awards on November 19, 2014 in New York City. (Photo by Robin Marchant/Getty Images) og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Lemony Snicket Pledges $1M to Planned Parenthood twitter:description: The 'A Series of Unfortunate Events' author offered support via Twitter twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt6a2ea35aab8f2e72/69886618ab6d77b8ff6a66f5/lemony-snicket-dan-handler.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Lemony Snicket Pledges $1M to Planned Parenthood by [Daniel White](https://time.com/author/daniel-white/) ## Daniel White Sep 29, 2015 9:11 PM UTC  Daniel Handler attends the 2014 National Book Awards ceremony in New York on Nov. 19, 2014. Daniel Handler attends the 2014 National Book Awards ceremony in New York on Nov. 19, 2014.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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