George Martin

George Martin is an American science fiction writer, laureate of many literary awards, author of the famous cycle "A Song of Ice and Fire", based on which the popular TV series "Game of Thrones" was filmed. In 2011, Time magazine included Martin in the top 100 most influential people in the world.

September 20, 1948 in the provincial town of Beyonne in the state of New Jersey in the family of a simple port mover Raymond Collins Martin and his wife Margaret Brady Martin, the first child was born, who in the future will become a famous writer. George Raymond Richard Martin grew up and was raised in a large poor family that lived in a social home on First Street. It is known that an explosive mixture of the blood of different peoples flows in the veins of a writer. George's father is a descendant of Italian and German immigrants, and the writer's mother came from a noble family of Irish gentlemen who at one time played an important role in the life of Beyonne.

The writer also has French, Welsh, English and German roots. Margaret's stories of the Brady dynasty's family legacy and the outlandish Golden Age were imprinted once and for all in the boy's mind. In an interview with the popular Rolling Stone magazine, the pen master admitted that his relationship with his father was not going well. More precisely, dad and son were not close: they saw each other every day, but exchanged only a couple of phrases. The only thing that connected George and Raymond was their love of sports. In his free time from work, Martin Sr. liked to drink, which is why the family did not have their own transport: according to the writer's father, strong alcohol and the presence of a car are incompatible things.

The faded colors of reality, the monotony and everyday vanity made George sad. And only the wonderful world from the books of favorite writers brought bright colors to the gray canvas of life. Martin admitted that he first got acquainted with the works of Western classical literature thanks to the comics produced by Marvel Comics. It is noteworthy that in 1965, George, inspired by the adventures of superheroes, received his first award - the Alley Awards for the story “Powerman vs. The Blue Barrier ".

When Martin was 10 years old, he was presented with a book by American science fiction writer Robert Heinlein "I have a spacesuit - ready to travel." Then the mystic Howard Lovecraft and the legendarium of John Tolkien appeared in George's life. The future writer voraciously read terrible tales about the great and terrible Cthulhu and imagined himself as a wanderer in magical Middle-earth.

Young Martin attended Mary Jane Donahue High School in his hometown. During boring lessons, George wrote blood-curdling tales of monsters and sold them for a pittance to his comrades. With the money received, the gifted young man bought his favorite Milky Way chocolate.

After leaving school, Martin moved to Illinois to the city of Evanston. There, the young man studied journalism at Northwestern University. Although George received his bachelor's and master's degrees, he never managed to find a job in his specialty: since 1978, Martin began teaching English at Clark University. In the 1980s, John moved to Hollywood, where he wrote scripts and also worked as an editor and producer.

George began to think about writing as a teenager. After reading Tolkien's epic novel The Lord of the Rings in 1965, young Martin tries to write. Then George comes up with a story about Rhlor, a brave prince who travels through the Dothraki Empire in search of the demons and monsters that killed his grandfather Barristan the Valiant. The young man did not finish this story, but the names of the main characters are reflected in further works of Martin.

In 1971, George made his debut in a real magazine (before that Martin was published in fanzines): Galaxy Science Fiction published his story "The Hero" ("Hero"). It is noteworthy that fortune did not smile at the young man right away: before that, the work of the young George "An Additional Safety Factor" was refused by the editors a record 42 times. In 1976, the debut collection of short stories by George R.R. Martin, A Song of Leah, was published, which won the Locus Literary Award.

From the biography of the writer it is known that the genius of the pen began to seriously engage in writing after the death of the American science fiction writer Tom Reamy, who died of a heart attack on November 4, 1977, while sitting at a typewriter. Martin took this tragic event as a sign from above.

In 1977, Martin publishes the science fiction novel "Dying Light", which was nominated for the British Fantasy Awards in 1979. The plot of the book tells about the fictional planet Warlorn, which wanders through the vastness of the galaxy, moving away from the stars and sources of life into the realm of cold and darkness. Thus, Martin tells about a world doomed to destruction, where the main characters are trying to adapt to the harsh realities of life.

The writer also composes collections of stories "Sand Kings" (1981), "Taf's Travels" (1986), the short story "Boundary Knight" (1998) and many other fantastic works. But the recognition of a wide audience to Martin is brought by the cycle of novels "A Song of Ice and Fire". The series became so popular that it was translated into 45 languages ​​of the world, and total sales by April 2015 exceeded 60 million copies.

Initially, the series of books "A Song of Ice and Fire", the work on which was initiated in 1991, was conceived by Martin as a trilogy, but at the moment the cycle has grown to five volumes:

Thanks to the works of the troubadours, many readers, hearing the word "Middle Ages", imagine brave men, fair kings and princesses, who are imprisoned in a gloomy castle guarded by a monster.

In his novels, Martin destroys these stereotypes, telling not only about bloody wars and civil strife, but also talking about injustice, poverty, religious intolerance and sexual licentiousness in those troubled times. Thus, in his fictional world, the master is trying to recreate something similar to the era of feudal fragmentation, seasoning it with fabulous dragons and undead.

Martin's books do have a lot of characters and storylines that can initially get confused. But, despite the abundance of names, all the heroes of "A Song of Ice and Fire" are not at all accidental: the master somehow returns to them in the course of the narrative, revealing to the reader the inner world of even the most insignificant character. It is noteworthy that the American genius of literature is not afraid to shock the public, brutally removing from his work a hero who has managed to fall in love with readers. According to the writer, you cannot write a good book in which no one dies.

By the way, a similar idea of ​​drastically pulling characters out of the plot was inspired by Alfred Hitchcock's "Psycho", where the main character dies forty minutes after the start of the film. In 2011, based on A Song of Ice and Fire, HBO launched one of the largest-budget TV shows of our time, Game of Thrones, which, despite the abundance of sex and violent scenes, received rave reviews from eminent critics and avid moviegoers.

Martin's first beloved was the little-known writer Lisa Tuttle, with whom George wrote the story "A Storm in the Harbor of the Winds" (1975). Fortunately or unfortunately, the relationship between the two creative natures failed. In 1974, the master offers the hand and heart to Gail Bernick, with whom he divorces after five years of living together.

According to rumors, during this period, Martin led a stormy life and was popular with women. It was in 1975 that the fateful meeting of the writer with his future wife (and concurrently with a fan of his novels) - Paris McBride takes place. In 2011, George and Paris decided to legalize their relationship. The spouses have no children.

Among other things, George Martin is a philanthropist. He founded Wild Spirit Wolf Sanctuary, a charitable foundation for wildlife in New Mexico. It is worth noting that the genius of literature does not like the excessive attention of fans.

In 2017, the writer is working on the penultimate part of the A Song of Ice and Fire saga entitled The Winds of Winter.

The exact release date of the novel is still a mystery: presumably, the book will be published in 2017 or 2018. The last part of the Spring Dream series is planned for 2020.

"Song of Leah" 1976 (collection of short stories) "Dying Light", 1977 "The Path of the Cross and the Dragon", 1979 "Sand Kings" 1981 (collection of stories) "Harbor of the Winds", 1981 (with Lisa Tuttle) "Dreams of February", 1982 "Piercing darkness", 1985 (collection of stories). "Tafa's Travels", 1986 (collection of stories) "Plague Star", 1993 (novels and stories) "A Song of Ice and Fire" cycle (since 1996)

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George Martin Net Worth 2022

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