Mardik Martin is among the revered screenwriters on Writers Guild of America list of 101 Greatest Screenplays.
[3][4] Mardik Martin was born into a family of Armenian genocide survivors that fled to Abadan, Iran.
Although his family in Iraq was wealthy, he fled the country to avoid the draft and arrived in New York City in a penniless state.
According to Hollywood biographer Peter Biskind, "The two young men sat in Martin's Plymouth Valiant and wrote.
[7] In 2012, Martin was honored by the Parajanov-Vartanov Institute "for the mastery of his pen on iconic American films" such as Mean Streets and Raging Bull.