The Basic Eight - Origin

Origin

Daniel Handler is a graduate of Lowell High School in San Francisco and The Basic Eight is supposedly loosely based on his high school experience. Many of the teachers portrayed in the book are thought to be based on (and have very similar names to) Lowell faculty members from Handler's high school years. Some of these teachers continue to work at Lowell. In addition, many of the locations used in the book, such as Lake Merced, are in their unedited forms and actually exist near Lowell High School.

Works of Daniel Handler
Novels
  • The Basic Eight
  • Watch Your Mouth
  • Adverbs
  • Why We Broke Up
Screenplays
  • Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events (source material)
  • Rick
  • Kill the Poor
Music (accordion)
  • 69 Love Songs (The Magnetic Fields)
  • The Tragic Treasury (The Gothic Archies)
  • A Little Place in the Wilderness (Memphis)
  • In Our Bedroom After the War (Stars)
See also
  • Lemony Snicket

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