George R.R. Martin

George Raymond Richard Martin born George Raymond Martin September 20 1948 also known as GRRM is an American author television writer and television producer He is best known as the author of the series of epic fantasy novels A Song of Ice and Fire which was adapted into the Primetime Emmy Awardwinning television series Game of Thrones 20112019 and its prequel series House of the Dragon 2022present He also helped create the Wild Cards anthology series and contributed to worldbuilding for the video game Elden Ring 2022 In 2005 Lev Grossman of Time called Martin the American Tolkien and in 2011 he was included on the annual Time 100 list of the most influential people in the world Martin has lived in Santa Fe New Mexico for a long time where he helped fund Meow Wolf and owns the Jean Cocteau Cinema The city commemorates March 29 as George R R Martin Day Description above from the Wikipedia article George R R Martin licensed under CCBYSA full list of contributors on Wikipedia