George R.R. Martin Biography

A leading fantasy author George R. R. Martin grew up in Bayonne New Jersey where his world was five blocks long. He may have spent his early years never straying far from home but his imagination seemed to take him places. The oldest of three children Martin liked to watch offbeat and suspenseful television shows such as Thriller and The Twilight Zone.
Martin started writing in elementary school. He sold monster stories to other kids in his working-class neighborhood. During his high school years Martin moved on to other subjects. He started writing fan fiction based on the comic books he adored and began creating new superheroes as well. After graduating high school in 1966 he went to Northwestern University where he continued to pursue his passion for writing. He earned a bachelor's and master's degree in journalism.
Martin sold his first short story The Hero to Galaxy a science fiction magazine which was published in 1971. Martin also served as an editor on numerous book projects including New Voices in Science Fiction and the Wild Cards series.
While he became well regarded in the fantasy and science fiction worlds Martin had yet to achieve a huge commercial success by the 1980s. He worked as story editor for a remake of the old favorite Twilight Zone in 1986 and then became involved with the series Beauty and the Beast. Weary of the limitations of television Martin embarked on a new writing project in the early 1990s a fantasy series inspired by medieval England's Wars of the Roses.

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