Aug 31, 2026
Author Spotlight: George R. R. Martin — The Boy From the Projects Who Built Westeros and Still Can't Finish the Story
A deep dive on George R. R. Martin — the shy boy who grew up in public housing in Bayonne, New Jersey, sold monster stories to his friends for pennies, became the most decorated young writer in American science fiction, reinvented fantasy with A Song of Ice and Fire, and was made a global celebrity by Game of Thrones; four of his defining lines on reading, moral complexity, the power of the mind, and the pack that must survive; and the legacy of the author who spent fifteen years trying to finish The Winds of Winter.