George R. R. Martin

George R. R. Martin is an American author, screenwriter and television producer, born George Raymond Martin on September 20, 1948, and widely known by the initials GRRM. He is best known for A Song of Ice and Fire, an epic fantasy novel series that HBO adapted as the Emmy-winning television series Game of Thrones and its prequel House of the Dragon. He also wrote a related set of novellas, Tales of Dunk and Egg, which have since been adapted for television as A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms. Beyond that world, Martin helped create the Wild Cards anthology series, a shared-universe project written by many hands, and contributed worldbuilding to the video game Elden Ring. In 2005 Time critic Lev Grossman called him the American Tolkien, and in 2011 he appeared on the Time 100 list of the most influential people in the world. He lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico, where he helped fund the arts venue Meow Wolf and owns the Jean Cocteau Cinema.