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
{{DEFAULTSORT:Martin, Peter D. 1923 births 1988 deaths American booksellers San Francisco State University faculty