2.  George Raymond Richard Martin (born September 20, 1948), often referred to as GRRM, is an American novelist and short story writer in the fantasy, horror, and science fiction genres, as well as a screenwriter and television producer. He is best known for A Song of Ice and Fire, his international bestselling series of epic fantasy novels that HBO adapted for its dramatic series Game of Thrones. Martin serves as the series' co-executive producer, while also scripting one of each season's 10 episodes. Martin was selected by Time magazine as one of the "2011 Time 100," a list of the "most influential people in the world."

3.  George Raymond Martin (he later adopted the Confirmation name Richard at the age of 13) was born on September 20, 1948,in Bayonne, New Jersey, the son of longshoreman Raymond Collins Martin and his wife Margaret Brady Martin. He has two younger sisters, Darleen and Janet. Martin's father was half Italian, while his mother was half rish; his family also contains German, English, and French ancestry. The family first lived in a house on Broadway, belonging to Martin's great-grandmother. In 1953 they moved to a federal housing project near the Bayonne docks. During his childhood, his whole world consisted pretty much 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. When his family moved to a larger apartment after his sister was born, he also had a view of the waters of the Kill van Kull, where freighters and oil tankers flying flags from distant countries were coming and leaving Port Newark. He had an encyclopedia with a list of flags, and when using it to figure out where the ships came from, he would find himself dreaming of traveling to these remote locations. After the sun went down, the lights from Staten Island would shine across the water, which in his imagination was Shangri-La and "Shanghai and Paris, Timbuctoo and Kalamazoo, Marsport and Trantor, and all the other places that I’d never been and could never hope to go".

4.  Well. RR Martin is the author of fantasy series " A Song of Ice and Fire." Of the planned seven novels saga written and published in September 2011 five. All five books are published in Russian : " Game of Thrones ", " Battle of the Kings," " A Storm of Swords," " Feast of vultures " and " Dance with Dragons ". The fifth book of the cycle - "Dance with Dragons " (Eng. A Dance With Dragons) came out July 12, 2011 in the U.S. and the UK, Russia was published in the summer of 2012, being divided into two volumes.  Action novels occurs in the pseudo world closest to the XV century Medieval Europe. The main site of action is the mainland Vasteras.

5.  In January 2007, HBO bought the film rights to the series "A Song of Ice and Fire." The first season of "Game of Thrones" was aired in the spring of 2011, gathered mostly positive reviews from critics; at the same time the series was renewed for a second season. Some key roles in the series play a movie star Sean Bean has played a role in the first season of Eddard Stark, Peter Dinkleydzh - Tyrion Lannister [3]. The second season of the series was released in April 2012. Almost immediately, the series was renewed for a third season. In 2014, began showing the fourth season of the series.

8.  Howard Phillips Lovecraft (born Howard Phillips Lovecraft, August 20, 1890, Providence, Rhode Island, USA - March 15, 1937, ibid) - American writer, poet and journalist, writing in the genres of horror, mystery and fantasy, combining them in the original style. The ancestor of the Cthulhu Mythos. Along with Robert Howard is considered one of the founders of the fantasy genre.  Lovecraft during his lifetime his works were not very popular, but after his death they had a marked influence on the formation of modern mass culture. His work is so unique, that the works of Lovecraft constitute separate subgenre - the so-called lavkraftovskie horrors.

9.  Lovecraft was born in Providence ( Rhode Island, USA). He was the only child of a Salesman Wilfrid Scott Lovecraft and Sarah Susan Phillips Lovecraft. It is known that his ancestors lived in America since the days of the Massachusetts Bay Colony ( 1630 ).  When Howard was two years old, Wilfrid was placed in a psychiatric hospital, where he remained for five years until his death June 19, 1898.

10.  Lovecraft aged 9-10.  Lovecraft was raised by his mother, two aunts and grandfather ( Whipple Van Buren Phillips ), who sheltered the family of the future writer. Howard was a child prodigy - reciting poetry at the age of two years, and wrote his six [1]. Thanks to my grandfather, who had the largest library in the city [1], he became acquainted with classical literature. In addition to the classics he was fascinated by the gothic prose and Arab tales of the Arabian Nights.  At the age of 6-8 years, Lovecraft wrote several short stories, most of which to date has not been preserved. At age 14, Lovecraft wrote his first major work - " The Beast in the Cave."

11.  Since childhood, Lovecraft visited nightmares, but manage to wake up or it did not work. Creatures with membranous wings, which he called " night mverzyami " lifted him into the air and carried on " vile plateau Lang." These experiences are used in the works of the writer. So, the story " Dagon " - is one of those dreams. After waking state Lovecraft was completely insane, but he found the strength to write a dream. Reading it a few days later, he changed nothing.  Lovecraft was often sick child and went to school until the age of eight years, but a year later he was taken from there. He read a lot, studied chemistry between times, wrote several works ( propagated their hectographed small edition ), since 1899 ( "Scientific paper "). Four years later he returned to school.