- Born
- Birth nameGeorge Raymond Martin
- Height5′ 6″ (1.68 m)
- George R.R. Martin is an American novelist and short-story writer in the fantasy, horror, and science fiction genres, a screenwriter, and television producer. He is known for his international bestselling series of epic fantasy novels, A Song of Ice and Fire, which was later adapted into the HBO dramatic series Game of Thrones (2011).
Martin serves as the series' co-executive producer, and also scripted four episodes of the series. In 2005, Lev Grossman of Time called Martin "the American Tolkien."- IMDb Mini Biography By: Pedro Borges
- SpousesParris McBride(February 15, 2011 - present)Gale Burnick(1975 - 1979) (divorced)
- The chapters in his books focus on the viewpoints of different characters central to the main storyline
- Famous for abruptly and unexpectedly 'killing off' major characters in his books
- His books often feature violence, sexuality, power, religion and moral relativity as major themes
- Black cap
- White beard
- An interviewer once commented on George R. R. Martin's female characters being individual and realistic and then asked "Where do you think that comes from?" Sounding a little puzzled, George R. R. Martin replied, "Well, I've always thought of women as people.".
- Stated at the 2011 San Diego Comic Convention that his favorite character in "A Song of Ice and Fire" is Tyrion Lannister.
- In the very first Comic-Con that was conducted in New York city in 1964, George was the very first person who signed up to enter the convention.
- Does all of his writing on a DOS word processor using WordStar 4.0, a program released in 1987.
- He owns the first issues of "The Amazing Spider-man" and "Fantastic Four".
- [when asked if any of the cast of his book series, "A Song of Ice and Fire", will be left alive, he joked]: "No one will be alive by the last book. In fact, they all die in the fifth. The sixth book will be just a thousand-page description of snow blowing across the graves ..."
- [on writing 'The Red Wedding' in A Storm of Swords] That was the hardest scene I've ever had to write. It's two-thirds of the way through the book, but I skipped over it when I came to it. So the entire book was done and there was still that one chapter left. Then I wrote it. It was like murdering two of your children. I try to make the readers feel they've lived the events of the book. Just as you grieve if a friend is killed, you should grieve if a fictional character is killed. You should care. If somebody dies and you just go get more popcorn, it's a superficial experience isn't it?
- I had a couple of friends, but I was mostly the kid with his nose in a book.
- Don't write outlines; I hate outlines.
- Believe it or not, I worked four summers in college as a sports writer covering baseball for a parks and rec department in Bayonne, N.J.
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