![]() ![]() ![]() Martin, now 67, was no longer a nervous student, but a best-selling author whose books inspired the hit TV show Game of Thrones and produced a rabidly devoted fan base. Martin’s most recent visit to Northwestern went a little differently. I figured out how to get to the ‘L,’ but when I got off in Evanston, I realized I didn’t know whether to turn left or right. “I had two huge suitcases and an electric typewriter, and this was before suitcases had wheels!” Martin says, the moment still fresh in his memory. Out-of-town students who arrived via plane were met by greeters at the airport, but there was no one waiting for Martin ’70, ’71 MS when he stepped off a Greyhound bus in downtown Chicago. ![]() It was the fall of 1966, and he was an incoming freshman from Bayonne, N.J., who’d never left the New York area. Martin came to Northwestern, he was lost - literally and figuratively. ![]()
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