Martin

George Raymond Richard Martin

George Raymond Richard Martin (September 20, 1948 -) was born in New Jersey, USA. Generally known as George R. R. Martin or grrm, he is an American writer, playwright and producer of TV series, and has won many literary awards such as Hugo Award, nebula award, track award and World Science Fiction Award.

Martin is good at writing fantasy, science fiction and horror novels. His works mainly focus on the characters. The description is delicate and rich, which breaks through the inherent creation mode of fantasy literature and leads the reading trend for many times. His masterpieces include one of the top ten romantic space operas, gone with the light, windharbor expanded from Hugo award-winning pieces, voyages of tuff, which is popular among magazine readers, and the contemporary serious and fantastic classic song of ice and fire series. Because of the brilliant achievements of Martin's works, he was praised as "Tolkien of America" and "Hemingway of the new century" by time magazine.

Character experience

Early life

George R. R. Martin was born on September 20, 1948 in Bayonne, New Jersey, USA. He is the eldest son and has two younger sisters. Martin's family first lived in his great grandmother's home. When he was five years old, he moved to the federal public housing near the dock. According to Martin, his childhood world was basically limited to "between the first street and the Fifth Street" between his school and his family. This stimulated his desire to explore other places when he was young, but because his family was not rich, he could only rely on his imagination to satisfy himself, so he became a bookish reader. When Martin's sister was born, his family moved to a bigger apartment on the shore. Every day, they could see the national flags flying on the ocean going freighters and oil tankers going back and forth in Newark Bay, as well as the city lights on Staten Island in New York on the other side. Martin could not help but dream of traveling to distant countries that he had never been to and could not imagine. Young Martin began to try to write his own Devil stories, sell them to his neighbor's children to earn pocket money, and fantasize about a magical kingdom full of conspiracy and infighting inspired by his pet turtle.

After high school, Martin became a big fan of comics, especially Marvel's superhero comics. When a letter he wrote to the readers of magic four was published in the 20th issue of the cartoon in 1963, he began to receive a large number of letters from other readers because the cartoon agency didn't cover up the address of the contributors. This led him to take part in the writing work of cartoon fans in the infancy of fashion, and in 1965, with the help of《 Powermanvs.TheBlueBarrier 》He won the alley award, which was influential among cartoon fans at that time.

After graduating from high school, Martin was admitted to Northwestern University in Illinois, one of the best universities in the United States. In 1970, Martin received a bachelor's degree in journalism from Northwestern University with the best results, and a master's degree in 1971. Because he did not want to be conscripted to join the Vietnam War, Martin applied for and obtained the status of "conscientious anti war" and worked as a volunteer for the next two years. At the same time, he also worked in the management of the international chess association to support his writing, but his income was limited, and "life was not enough.".

In the mid-1970s, Martin met George guthridge, a college English professor, at a science fiction exhibition in Milwaukee. He convinced guthridge, who was then averse to fiction, to change his mind and began to participate in writing (guthridge later became an award-winning writer in the fields of science fiction, fantasy and horror). In return for enlightening himself to broaden his horizons, goosley offered to help Martin find a teaching and research job at Clarke University in dubic, Iowa. From 1976 to 1979, Martin taught English and Journalism at the University, and was a part-time resident writer. Although Martin was very satisfied with his teaching life, at the end of 1977, his good friend Tom reamy died of a heart attack, which made Martin begin to re-examine his life goals. At the end of 1979, because his wife was tired of the cold winter in dubic, Martin also planned to start writing full-time, so he dismissed the university faculty and moved to Santa Fe, the capital of New Mexico.

Writing and screenwriting

Martin's career began in 1970, when he was 21 years old and was in college. His first work, the hero, was bought out by Galaxy Science Fiction Magazine and published in February 1971. In 1973, Martin's with morning comes mistfall, published in analogue magazine, won him two nominations for Hugo Award and Nebula Award for the first time. As a member of the American Association of science fiction and fantasy writers, Martin served as the southwest director of the association from 1977 to 1979.

In 1975, Martin won the Hugo Award for best novella for "song for lya.". The collection of stories of the same name from Martin's previous works won the track Award for best story collection in 1977.

In 1976, at the 34th world science fiction conference in Kansas City, Martin and his friend Gardner dozois held a "Hugo losers' Party" to comfort the nominees who had previously failed. As a result, at the award ceremony the next night, Martin had two works "and seven times never killman" and "the wind" The storms of Windhaven were nominated but not all won. Since then, the "loser party" has become a traditional project at the world science fiction conference.

However, Martin's writing career met a big setback in 1983. His fourth novel, the Armageddon rag, was nominated for both the track award and the World Fantasy Award, but its sales were surprisingly poor. According to Martin, the book's commercial failure "basically ruined my career as a novelist at the time.". Later, Martin turned to Hollywood and began to work as a screenwriter for the CBS TV series the twilight zone. When CBS decided not to renew the show in 1988, Martin turned to ABC's max heart, but his play had not yet been filmed, which was cut in the middle of the second season. After that, Martin became a part-time producer of the fantasy feature film beauty and the beast, which ended in 1990.

At the same time, Martin is still working in the printing and publishing industry, including the famous "wild cards series" and "John Campbell award winning works collection"（ TheJohnW.CampbellAwardsVolume ）Wait.

Although Martin's salary in Hollywood is satisfactory, he is very disappointed that most of the programs he participated in failed to pass the approval, because what a writer desires most is that his works can be seen by the public, but the decision-making level of the broadcasting company is not the same as the screenwriter. When Martin's 1980 novella nightwalkers was adapted into a movie, Martin publicly expressed his dissatisfaction with the cut of the plot to cater to the budget.

After the end of "the brave lion" in 1990, Martin began to write prose and conceive a novel called Avalon in his spare time before he took over the TV work. After he had just written the draft of three chapters, he suddenly conceived the scene of a boy going to watch the execution and beheading, and then finding the ice wolf in the snow. This seemingly ordinary moment of inspiration aroused endless reverie and ignited his long lost passion for creation, which was irresistible ever since. Martin left Avalon aside, wrote a chapter in a few days, and soon realized that it had nothing to do with his previous novels, but would be part of a big story. This chapter, which he was inspired to write, became the first chapter of the epic song of ice and fire. After a few more chapters, Martin decided that his new book would be a long series of fantasy stories, and began to make maps and genealogies of characters in the background of the story. However, the writing of this book was interrupted for several years, because in 1992 Martin was called back to Hollywood to create the ABC reserved TV series doors, but although the pilot series were all shot, it was not released in the end.

In 1994, Martin abandoned his TV work and began to create his own fantasy story three years ago. He gave Kirby McCauley, his publishing agent, the first 200 pages of manuscripts and a two page blueprint for his trilogy series

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