ByUnsurprisingly, took home another Emmy Award earlier this week for Outstanding Drama Series, which marked the series' third time winning the title. Of course, George RR Martin—the author who wrote the books that inspired the TV show, and the series' executive producer—celebrated the victory alongside.For anyone who may be unfamiliar with Martin's work, he is the author of the A Song of Ice and Fire series, which is the epic fantasy series that led to the Game of Thrones adaptation.
George R R Martin Net Worth 2019 @ $ 65 Million How much is George RR Martin Worth? Martin is an American author and television producer who has a net worth of $65 million.
Basically, we really we have him to thank for this seven-year roller coaster we've been on.At 70 years old (his birthday was yesterday, September 20th), Martin has had a fairly lengthy career as an author, consisting of a number of screenplays and TV pilots before A Song of Ice and Fire, which, he wrote in the spirit of The Lord of the Rings. Frazer Harrison, Getty ImagesMartin sold the rights to his A Song of Ice and Fire series in 2007, and he truly owes the vast majority of his net worth to the success of his novels and the Game of Thrones TV series. So how much exactly is this acclaimed author worth?
According to Daily Mail, makes about $15 million annually from the TV show, and another $10 million from his successful literary works.According to Celebrity Net Worth, that makes Martin's net worth about $65 million.Regardless of his millions, Martin still lives a fairly modest life, and it's clear he does everything for his love of writing.We'd like to extend a personal thank you to Martin for creating one of the most exciting and emotionally jarring storylines we've ever experienced.We wish Game of Thrones could go, too! Born on November 29, 1832, Louisa May Alcott led a fascinating life. Besides enchanting millions of readers with her novel Little Women, she worked as a Civil War nurse, fought against slavery, and registered women to vote. Here are 10 facts about the celebrated author. Louisa May Alcott had many famous friends.Louisa's parents, Bronson and Abigail Alcott, raised their four daughters in a politically active household in Massachusetts. As a child, Alcott briefly lived with her family in a failed Transcendentalist commune, helped her parents who had escaped via the Underground Railroad, and had discussions about women’s rights with Margaret Fuller.Throughout her life, she socialized with her father’s friends, including Henry David Thoreau, Ralph Waldo Emerson, and Nathaniel Hawthorne. Although her family was always, Alcott had access to valuable learning experiences.
She read books in Emerson’s library and learned about botany at Walden Pond with Thoreau, later writing a called 'Thoreau’s Flute' for her friend. She also socialized with abolitionist Frederick Douglass and women’s suffrage activist Julia Ward Howe. Her first nom de plume was Flora Fairfield.As a teenager, Alcott worked a variety of teaching and servant jobs to earn money for her family. She first became a published writer at 19 years old, when a women’s magazine printed one of her poems. For reasons that are unclear, Alcott used a —Flora Fairfield—rather than her real name, perhaps because she felt that she was still developing as a writer. But in 1854 at age 22, Alcott used her own name for the first time. She published Flower Fables, a collection of fairy tales she had written six years earlier for Emerson’s daughter, Ellen.
She secretly wrote pulp fiction.Before writing Little Women, Alcott Gothic pulp fiction under the nom de plume A.M. Continuing her amusing penchant for alliteration, she wrote books and plays called Perilous Play and Pauline’s Passion and Punishment to make easy money. These sensational, melodramatic works are strikingly different than the more wholesome, righteous vibe she captured in Little Women, and she didn’t her former writing as her own after Little Women became popular. She wrote about her experience as a Civil War nurse.In 1861, at the beginning of the U.S.
Civil War, Alcott sewed Union uniforms in Concord and, the next year, as an army nurse. In a Washington, D.C. Hotel-turned-hospital, she comforted dying soldiers and helped doctors perform amputations. During this time, she wrote about her experiences in her journal and in letters to her family. In 1863, she published, a fictionalized account, based on her letters, of her stressful yet meaningful experiences as a wartime nurse.
The book became massively popular and was reprinted in 1869 with more material. She suffered from mercury poisoning.After a month and a half of nursing in D.C., Alcott caught typhoid fever and pneumonia. She received the standard treatment at the time—a toxic mercury compound called calomel.
(Calomel was used in medicines through the 19th century.) Because of this exposure to mercury, Alcott suffered from symptoms of mercury poisoning for the rest of her life. She had a weakened immune system, vertigo, and had episodes of hallucinations. To combat the pain caused by the mercury poisoning (as well as a possible disorder, such as lupus, that could have been triggered by it), she took opium. Alcott died of a stroke in 1888, at 55 years old. She wrote Little Women to help her father.In 1867, Thomas Niles, an editor at a publishing house, asked Alcott if she wanted to write a for girls. Although she tried to get excited about the project, she thought she wouldn’t have much to write about girls because she was a tomboy.
The next year, Alcott’s father was trying to convince Niles to publish his manuscript about philosophy. He told Niles that his daughter could write a book of fairy stories, but Niles still wanted a novel about girls. Niles told Alcott’s father that if he could get his daughter to write a (non-fairy) novel for girls, he would publish his philosophy manuscript. So to make her father happy and help his writing career, Alcott wrote about her adolescence growing up with her three sisters. Published in September 1868, the first part of Little Women was a. The second part was published in 1869, and Alcott went on to write sequels such as Little Men (1871) and Jo’s Boys (1886). She was an early suffragette.In the 1870s, Alcott for a women’s rights periodical and went door-to-door in Massachusetts to encourage women to vote.
In 1879, the state passed a law that would allow women to vote in local elections on anything involving education and children—Alcott immediately, becoming the first woman registered in Concord to vote. Although met with resistance, she, along with 19 other women, cast ballots in an 1880 town meeting. The Nineteenth Amendment was finally ratified in 1920, decades after Alcott died. She pretended to be her own servant to trick her fans.After the success of Little Women, fans who connected with the book traveled to Concord to see where Alcott grew up. One month, Alcott had a hundred strangers knock on the door of Orchard House, her family’s home, hoping to see her. Because she didn’t like the attention, she pretended to be a servant when she answered the front door, hoping to trick fans into leaving.
ALCOTT NEVER HAD CHILDREN, BUT SHE CARED FOR HER NIECE.Although Alcott never married or had biological children, she took care of her orphaned niece. In 1879, Alcott’s youngest sister May a month after giving birth to her daughter. As she was dying, May told her husband to send the baby, whom she had named Louisa in honor of Alcott, to her older sister. Nicknamed Lulu, the girl spent her childhood with Alcott, who wrote her stories and seemed a good fit for her high-spiritedness.
Lulu was just 8 when Alcott died, at which point she went to live with her father in Switzerland. FANS CAN VISIT ALCOTT'S FAMILY HOME IN CONCORD, MASSACHUSETTS.At 399 Lexington Road in Concord, Massachusetts, tourists can visit, the Alcott family home from 1858 to 1877. Orchard House is a designated National Historic Landmark, and visitors can take a guided tour to see where Alcott wrote and set Little Women.
Visitors can also get a look at Alcott’s writing desk and the family’s original furniture and paintings.Mental Floss is partnering with the Paper & Packaging – How Life Unfolds® “15 Pages A Day” reading initiative to make sure that everyone has the opportunity (and time) to take part in. Take the pledge at.
The fall weather brings with it a lot of cozy activities: Apple picking, pumpkin carving—and curling up on chilly nights with a comfy blanket, a steaming cup of tea, and a good British period drama. If you’re a fan of that last activity, it probably means you’ve been spending your Sunday evenings watching Poldark, which is ready to return to its coveted Sunday-at-9 p.m. Slot on PBS’s long-running program for its fifth and final season.Poldark is story of one Ross Poldark (Aidan Turner): an 18th-century gentleman-turned-social-justice-warrior juggling a love triangle, a gig as a member of Parliament, and a ripped. Here are 10 things you might not have known about the breathtaking BBC series. Poldark is based on a series of books by British author Winston Graham. Courtesy of Mammoth Screen for BBC and MASTERPIECEOne scroll through Christian Brassington’s is a double-take waiting to happen. The actor plays the villainous minister Ossie Whitworth on Poldark.
But if you’re expecting pics of a rotund dude with a self-righteous gleam in his eye, you’ll have to make do with someone who looks like he walked off the cover of GQ instead. As Brassington recently revealed in a Masterpiece, he put on 40 pounds to play the loathsome Ossie. The fifth season of Poldark will also be its last.All good things must come to, including Poldark.
Shortly before season four's U.S. Premiere, it was announced that Poldark's fifth season would be its final season.“In The Stranger from the Sea, Winston Graham made many references to developments that happened in the gap years,' Poldark creator Debbie Horsfield, who has written every episode of the first four seasons, in discussing the final season. 'Much can also be inferred. There are, of course, also historical events and people of the time, both in Cornwall and in London. Series five will draw on all of these to follow the lives of the Poldarks, George Warleggan, the Enyses, and the Carnes in this intervening period.' This story has been updated for 2019.
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