Peter D. Martin

Peter Dean Martin
Born1923
DiedMarch 3, 1988(1988-03-03) (aged 65)
San Francisco, California, US
Known forCity Lights Bookstore
SpouseMadeleine Martin
ParentCarlo Tresca
RelativesElizabeth Gurley Flynn (aunt)
New Yorker Bookshop
New Yorker Bookshop

Peter Dean Martin (1923 – March 3, 1988) was an American 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 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 with his wife Madeleine Dimond.

References

  1. 1 2 3 "Peter Martin, 65, Dies; Founder of a Bookshop". New York Times. March 8, 1988. Retrieved February 18, 2014.
  2. ↑ "Madeleine Martin, Artist, 69". New York Times. December 4, 1991. Retrieved February 18, 2014.
  3. ↑ Pernicone, N. (October 19, 2005). the Town Anarchist. ISBN 9781403981097.
  4. ↑ "Guide to the Carlo Tresca: Dorothy Gallagher Research Files TAM.117". Dlib.nyu.edu. January 11, 1943. Retrieved February 18, 2014.
  5. ↑ Morgan, Bill (May 2003). The Beat Generation in San Francisco: A Literary Tour. ISBN 9780872864177.
  6. ↑ Elman, Richard. Namedropping: Mostly Literary Memoirs. ISBN 9781438402031.
  7. ↑ "Madeleine Martin, Artist, 69". The New York Times. December 4, 1991. Retrieved October 28, 2023.