Martin attended Mary Jane Donohoe School and later Marist High School. Martin had a habit of starting "endless stories" that he never completed, as they did not turn out as well on paper as he had imagined them. He also wrote stories about a mythical kingdom populated by his pet turtles the turtles died frequently in their toy castle, so he decided they were killing each other off in "sinister plots". ![]() Martin began writing and selling monster stories for pennies to other neighborhood children, dramatic readings included he had to stop once one of his customer's mothers complained about her child's nightmares. During Martin's childhood, his world consisted predominantly of "First Street to Fifth Street", between his grade school and his home this limited world made him want to travel and experience other places, but the only way of doing so was through his imagination, and he became a voracious reader. ![]() 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). Girl who came to supper Layton, Joe, 1931- Coward, Noel, 1899-1973 Kurnitz, Harry Levin, Herman, 1907-1990 Genres Photographs Notes Creation/production credits: Music and lyrics: Noël Coward Book: Harry Kurnitz Type of Resource Still image Identifiers NYPL catalog ID (B-number): b18354450 Universal Unique Identifier (UUID): 9ee0f6f0-ffa6-012f-6c36-58d385a7bc34 Rights Statement The New York Public Library holds or manages the copyright(s) in this item.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. The Girl Who Came to Supper Dates / Origin Date Issued: 1963 Library locations Billy Rose Theatre Division Shelf locator: *T-Pho B (Girl who came to supper) Topics Theatrical productions Coward, Noel, 1899-1973. Names Levin, Herman, 1907-1990 (Producer) Friedman-Abeles (Firm) (Photographer) Collectionīilly Rose Theatre Collection photograph file TitleJoe Layton, Noël Coward, book writer Harry Kurnitz, and producer Herman Levin in rehearsal for the stage production The Girl Who Came to Supper
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