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He was inducted the 2018 New Jersey Hall of Fame in the Arts and Letters category.

He has Irish, and smaller amounts of English, German, and French-Canadian, ancestry. For most of his life, he believed that his paternal grandfather, Louis Joseph Martin, an Italian emigrant, from Naples, who had changed his name from Luigi Mazzuoccolo, was his biological grandfather. When appearing on the show Finding Your Roots with Henry Louis Gates, Jr. (2012), George undertook a DNA test and discovered that his biological paternal grandfather was actually a different man, who was Ashkenazi Jewish.

George R. R. Martin is an American novelist and short-story writer in the fantasy, horror, and science fiction genres, a screenwriter, and television producer. He is known for his international bestselling series of epic fantasy novels, A Song of Ice and Fire, which was later adapted into the HBO dramatic series Game of Thrones (2011). Martin serves as the series' co-executive producer, and also scripted four episodes of the series.

He is spoofed by Trey Parker on the South Park (1997) episodes titled 'A Song of Ass and Fire' and 'Titties and Dragons'.

Does all of his writing on a DOS word processor using WordStar 4.0, a program released in 1987.

Wrote the teleplay of The Twilight Zone (1985) episode "Last Defender of Camelot," which written by his friend Roger Zelazny.

His short story "The Way of Cross and Dragon" won a 1980 Hugo Award.

Lives in the same Santa Fe house he's resided in since the 1970s, and bought a second house on the same street to function as his office and library.

In the very first Comic-Con that was conducted in New York city in 1964, George was the very first person who signed up to enter the convention.

The first science fiction book he ever read was "Have Space Suit - Will Travel" (1958) by Robert A. Heinlein. Among other authors on his favorite reads are Robert E. Howard ("Conan" series), J.R.R. Tolkien, with whom he shares the same middle initials.