George Raymond Richard Martin^[1] (born George Raymond Martin; September 20, 1948),^[2] also known as GRRM,^[3] is an American novelist, screenwriter, television producer and short story writer. 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).

In 2005, Lev Grossman of Time called Martin “the American Tolkien“,^[4] and in 2011, he was included on the annual Time 100 list of the most influential people in the world.^[5][6]