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Who is Jon Snow’s mother?

That was the question George R.R. Martin posed to series creators David Benioff and D.B. Weiss when they met to gain Martin’s permission to adapt his epic tale of conflict and conquest for television.

“We threw out our guess,” Benioff recalls, to which Martin smiled. They had sealed the deal.

It was always the intention to pitch the series to HBO, and when Benioff and Weiss proposed the idea to Martin, the author remarked that he never envisioned his work finding a home anywhere else.

Years spent mastering the art of character and story pacing combined with an almost freakishly lucky break is how Sarah Heyward landed one of the most coveted writing jobs in Los Angeles. The youngest writer on HBO’s Girls besides show creator Lena Dunham, 29-year-old Heyward graduated from Harvard in 2006 then spent a year in New York as a nanny and interning at The Paris Review lit