Meet the man who made Charles Bukowski a millionaire

At 49, Charles Bukowski was a drunk, broke, no-name writer who scraped by working as a postman in Los Angeles.

 
But, when he died at the age of 73, he was one of the most famous writers and poets in the world with over 50 books in circulation and something like $4 million to his name.

Bukowski’s luck can be attributed to John Martin (the nerdy looking gent with the glasses in the above photograph).

John Martin was an entrepreneur first and a reader second.

While he spent a large chunk of his career building a forty-person office supply business in Los Angeles, he amassed a vast library of books to satisfy his voracious appetite.

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 info photo: Charles Bukowski και John Martin το 1972