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in Journalism from Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, graduating summa cum laude.

Martin's first professional sale was made in 1970 at age 21: The Hero, sold to Galaxy, published in February, 1971 issue. Later he became a comic book fan and collector in high school, and began to write fiction for comic fanzines (amateur fan magazines). He began writing very young, selling monster stories to other neighborhood children for pennies, dramatic readings included. Martin attended Mary Jane Donohoe School and Marist High School. He has two sisters, Darleen Martin Lapinski and Janet Martin Patten. His father was Raymond Collins Martin, a longshoreman, and his mother was Margaret Brady Martin. I don’t know what else I can say: I’m a slow writer, I’ve always been a slow writer, and these are gigantic books.”Īs the HBO series, which has already begun shooting Season Four, closes in on the books that have inspired it, the author says that he has tipped off Game of Thrones creators on “where I am going, so I think they know the ultimate destination, but I have to not allow them to catch me.George Raymond Richard 'R.R.' Martin was born September 20, 1948, in Bayonne, New Jersey. “But at the same time, sometimes I just wish they would stop pressuring me about it. “It is great that so many people are eager for the next book and certainly these are the people who are paying my bills and allowing me to have a house across the street from my other house,” Martin begins, referring to his writing office, which is across the street from his home in Sante Fe, New Mexico. In a new interview with The Sydney Morning Herald, the self-proclaimed slow writer begs fans to stop harassing him about finishing his sixth novel in the Song of Ice and Fire series, The Winds of Winter. Legions of bloodthirsty fans have been riding the *G.O.T.*creator to complete the remaining books-and now Martin is telling those hordes of insistent Game of Throne–ers, in the nicest way possible, to please back off for the time being. Martin to finish his planned seven-novel fantasy series, A Song of Ice and Fire, the source material for Game of Thrones. HBO is not the only entity pressuring grizzled sea captain George R.

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