The Publisher Responsible For Charles Bukowski's Career

It is one of the ironies of Charles Bukowski's career that his eventual success was largely due to the hard work of a Christian Scientist who drinks nothing stronger than iced tea. John Martin was the manager of an office supply company when he first read Bukowski's poetry, and it literally changed his life. He decided Bukowski was a great genius, "the Walt Whitman of our day," and set out to become his publisher. [Black Sparrow Press].

Howard Sounes, Charles Bukowski: Locked In The Arms Of A Crazy Life, 2000