George R. R. Martin Wikipedia. George Raymond Richard Martin3 born George Raymond Martin September 2. EqVV5p.jpg' alt='Watch Gift From Above Online Hollywoodreporter' title='Watch Gift From Above Online Hollywoodreporter' />George R. R. Martin,4 is an American novelist and short story writer in the fantasy, horror, and science fiction genres, screenwriter, and television producer. He is best known for his series of epic fantasy novels, A Song of Ice and Fire, which was later adapted into the HBO series Game of Thrones 2. Martin serves as the seriess co executive producer, and also scripted four episodes of the series. In 2. 00. 5, Lev Grossman of Time called Martin the American Tolkien,5 and in 2. Time 1. 00 list of the most influential people in the world. Early lifeeditGeorge Raymond Martin he later adopted the confirmation name Richard at 1. September 2. 0, 1. Bayonne, New Jersey,1. Raymond Collins Martin and his wife Margaret Brady Martin. He has two younger sisters, Darleen and Janet. His father was of half Italian descent, while his mother was of half Irish ancestry. He also has French, English, Welsh and German roots. Watch Green River 4Shared. The Little Prince French Le Petit Prince French pronunciation l pti ps, first published in 1943, is a novella, the most famous work of French. This is the page about the film. For other uses, see The SpongeBob Movie Sponge Out of Water. The family first lived in a house on Broadway, belonging to Martins great grandmother. In 1. 95. 3, they moved to a federal housing project near the Bayonne docks. During Martins childhood, his world consisted predominantly of First Street to Fifth Street, between his grade school and his home this limited world made him want to travel and experience other places, but the only way of doing so was through his imagination, so he became a voracious reader. The young Martin began writing and selling monster stories for pennies to other neighborhood children, dramatic readings included. Michael-Bay-news.jpg' alt='Watch Gift From Above Online Hollywoodreporter' title='Watch Gift From Above Online Hollywoodreporter' />MRC is a diversified global media company with operations in filmed entertainment, television programming and original digital content. The company is the industry. He also wrote stories about a mythical kingdom populated by his pet turtles the turtles died frequently in their toy castle, so he finally decided they were killing each other off in sinister plots. Martin attended Mary Jane Donohoe School and then later Marist High School. While there he became an avid comic book fan, developing a strong interest in the superheroes being published by Marvel Comics. A letter Martin wrote to the editor of Fantastic Four was printed in issue No. Nov 1. 96. 3 it was the first of many sent, e. FF 3. 2, 3. 4, and others. Fans who read his letters then wrote him letters in turn, and through such contacts, Martin joined the fledgling comics fandom of the era, writing fiction for various fanzines 1. New York in 1. 96. In 1. 96. 5, Martin won comic fandoms Alley Award for Best fan fiction for his prose superhero story Powerman vs. The Blue Barrier. In 1. 97. 0, Martin earned a B. S. in Journalism from Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, graduating summa cum laude he went on to complete his M. S. in Journalism in 1. Northwestern. 1. 9 Eligible for the draft during the Vietnam War, to which he objected, Martin applied for and obtained conscientious objector status 2. VISTA volunteer, attached to the Cook County Legal Assistance Foundation. An expert chess player, he also directed chess tournaments for the Continental Chess Association from 1. TeachingeditIn the mid 1. Martin met English professor George Guthridge from Dubuque, Iowa, at a science fiction convention in Milwaukee. Martin persuaded Guthridge who confesses that at that time he despised science fiction and fantasy not only to give speculative fiction a second look, but to write in the field himself. Guthridge has since been a finalist for the Hugo Award and twice for the Nebula Award for science fiction and fantasy. In 1. 99. 8, Guthridge Janet Berliner won the Bram Stoker Award for Superior Achievement in the Novel for their Children of the Dust. In turn, Guthridge helped Martin find a job at Clarke University then Clarke College. Martin wasnt making enough money to stay alive, from writing and the chess tournaments, says Guthridge. From 1. 97. 6 to 1. Martin was an English and journalism instructor at Clarke, and he became Writer In Residence at the college from 1. While he enjoyed teaching, the sudden death of friend and fellow author Tom Reamy in late 1. Martin reevaluate his own life, and he eventually decided to try to become a full time writer. He resigned from his job, and being tired of the hard winters in Dubuque, he moved to Santa Fe in 1. Writing careereditMartin began selling science fiction short stories professionally in 1. His first sale was The Hero, sold to Galaxy magazine and published in its February 1. His first story to be nominated for the Hugo Award2. Nebula Awards was With Morning Comes Mistfall, published in 1. Analog magazine. In 1. Epoch, a science fiction anthology edited by Roger Elwood and Robert Silverberg. His first novel, Dying of the Light, was published in 1. Martin is a member of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America SFWA, Martin became the organizations Southwest Regional Director from 1. In 1. 97. 6, for Kansas Citys Mid. Ameri. Con, the 3. World Science Fiction Convention Worldcon, Martin and his friend and fellow writer editor Gardner Dozois conceived of and organized the first Hugo Losers Party for the benefit of all past and present Hugo losing writers, their friends and families, the evening following the conventions Hugo Awards ceremony. Martin was nominated for two Hugos that year but lost both awards, for the novelette. Seven Times Never Kill Man and the novella The Storms of Windhaven, co written with Lisa Tuttle. The Hugo Losers Party became an annual Worldcon event thereafter, and its formal title later changed. Although Martin often writes fantasy or horror, a number of his earlier works are science fiction tales occurring in a loosely defined future history, known informally as The Thousand Worlds or The Manrealm. He has also written at least one piece of political military fiction, Night of the Vampyres, collected in Harry Turtledoves anthology The Best Military Science Fiction of the 2. Century 2. 00. 1. In 1. 98. 3, Martin published a vampire novel titled Fevre Dream set in the 1. Mississippi River. Unlike traditional vampire novels, in Fevre Dream vampires are not supernatural creatures, but are rather a different species related to humans created by evolution with superhuman powers. Critic Don DAmassa has praised Fevre Dream for its strong 1. This is without question one of the greatest vampire novels of all time. Martin followed up Fevre Dream with another horror novel, The Armageddon Rag. The unexpected commercial failure of The Armageddon Rag 1. However, that failure led him to seek a career in television1. Hollywood option on that novel led to him being hired, first as a staff writer and then as an Executive Story Consultant, for the revival of the Twilight Zone. After the CBS series was cancelled, Martin migrated over to the already underway satirical science fiction series Max Headroom. He worked on scripts and created the shows Ped Xing character. However, before his scripts could go into production, the ABC show was cancelled in the middle of its second season. Martin was then hired as a writer producer on the new dramatic fantasy series Beauty and the Beast in 1. In 1. 98. 7, Martin published a collection of short horror stories in Portraits of His Children. During this same period, Martin continued working in print media as a book series editor, this time overseeing the development of the multi author Wild Cards book series, which takes place in a shared universe in which a small slice of postWorld War II humanity gains superpowers after the release of an alien engineered virus new titles are still being published in the ongoing series from Tor Books. In Second Person, Martin gives a personal account of the close knit role playing game RPG culture that gave rise to his Wild Cards shared world anthologies. An important element in the creation of the multiple author series was a campaign of Chaosiums role playing game Superworld 1. Martin ran in Albuquerque.