^{From TV shows to movies to a train line he bought (really), George R.R. Martin is a busy guy. But one of his projects looms larger than the rest} 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 R.R. Martin was born September 20, 1948 in Bayonne, New Jersey. His father was Raymond Collins Martin, a longshoreman, and his mother was Margaret Brady Martin. He has two sisters, Darleen Responding to a list of the best TV episodes of the last quarter century from Vanity Fair, ‘Game of Thrones’ creator George RR Martin named 'Six Feet Under' as the best series finale of all time. .