Biography

George R.R. Martin

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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

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.".
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.
Stated at the 2011 San Diego Comic Convention that his favorite character in "A Song of Ice and Fire" is Tyrion Lannister.
He is known to write his books in his own leisurely pace, often testing the limits of his fans' patience. In a few instances where fans kept pressing him for the release date of his next book, he inquired about their favorite character, and threatened to kill off that particular character if they kept harassing him.

[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.