

In 1953, they moved to a federal housing project near the Bayonne docks. The family first lived in a house on Broadway belonging to Martin's great-grandmother. He is predominantly of Irish descent a DNA test on the series Finding Your Roots showed him to be 53.6% "British and Irish", 22.4% Ashkenazi Jewish, and 15.6% "Broadly Northwestern European". He has two younger sisters, Darleen and Janet. His mother's family had once been wealthy, owning a successful construction business, but lost it all in the Great Depression, something Martin was reminded about every day when he passed what used to be his family's dock and house. George Raymond Martin (he adopted the confirmation name Richard at 13 years old) was born on September 20, 1948, in Bayonne, New Jersey, the son of longshoreman Raymond Collins Martin and Margaret Brady Martin. The city commemorates March 29 as George R. R. He is a longtime citizen of Santa Fe, New Mexico, where he helped fund Meow Wolf and owns the Jean Cocteau Cinema. 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. He also helped create the Wild Cards anthology series, and contributed worldbuilding for the 2022 video game Elden Ring. He is the author of the series of epic fantasy novels A Song of Ice and Fire, which were adapted into the Emmy Award-winning HBO series Game of Thrones (2011–2019) and its prequel series House of the Dragon (2022–present). George Raymond Richard Martin (born George Raymond Martin September 20, 1948), also known as GRRM, is an American novelist, screenwriter, television producer and short story writer.
