Peter D. Martin
The basics
Quick facts
Gender:
Male
Birth:
1 January 1923
Death:
3 March 1988(San Francisco, San Francisco County, California, U.S.A.)
Family:
Father:
The details
Biography
Introduction
Peter Dean Martin (born 1923) was a college professor and bookstore owner, known for his founding of the City Lights Bookstore. He was the son of Carlo Tresca and Sabina 'Bina' Flynn, and the nephew of Elizabeth Gurley Flynn.
Background
Martin, the son of Carlo Tresca and Bina Flynn, was teaching sociology at San Francisco State College when in 1953 he founded the short lived City Lights Publishing company. To support the publishing company he started the City Lights Pocket Book Shop with Lawrence Ferlinghetti.
After two years, he sold his interest in the bookstore and returned to his native New York, where he founded the New Yorker Bookstore.