The listing, Lemony Snicket, the unauthorized biography has ended.
Although it is labeled "Unauthorized" for humor, the book is in fact official and considered a Beginning with a multi-layered introduction that encompasses twelve of the book's thirteen chapters. The book is largely made up of facsimile documents, such as old newspaper excerpts and letters. The book also uses a mixture of black-and-white 1930s photography gathered from an archive of photographs. The book helps clear up some loose ends from the series, but it also introduces many more mysteries, and explains some details which readers might have missed in previous books.