George R.R. Martin, the famed author behind the “Game of Thrones” series, has donated $5 million to Northwestern University to create a writing workshop and a professorship.
A $3 million gift will establish the George R.R. Martin Summer Intensive Writing Workshop at the university’s Medill School of Journalism, Media, Integrated Marketing Communications. And $2 million will fund an endowed professorship, the George R.R. Martin Chair in Storytelling, to lead the workshop.
