Description:
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."
Birthday
September 20, 1948
Born In
Bayonne, New Jersey, USA
Height
168 cm
Spouse/Ex-
Parris McBride February 15, 2011 - present (),Gale Burnick 1975 - 1979 (divorced)
Trivia
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.".
Quotes
[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 ..."
Trademarks
The chapters in his books focus on the viewpoints of different characters central to the main storyline
