Barnaby Conrad is an American artist and author.

Born in San Francisco, California

San Francisco, California

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, Conrad graduated from Taft School in Watertown, Connecticut

Watertown, Connecticut

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. He attended the University of North Carolina

University of North Carolina

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, where he was captain of the freshman boxing team. He also studied painting at the University of Mexico, where he also became interested in bullfighting

Bullfighting

Bullfighting is a traditional spectacle of Spain, Portugal, southern France and some Latin American countries , in which one or more bulls are baited in a bullring for sport and entertainment...

. After being injured in the bullring, he graduated from Yale University

Yale University

Yale University is a private, Ivy League university located in New Haven, Connecticut, United States. Founded in 1701 in the Colony of Connecticut, the university is the third-oldest institution of higher education in the United States...

 in 1943.

Conrad was American Vice Consul

Consul (representative)

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 to Seville

Seville

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, Málaga

Málaga

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, and Barcelona

Barcelona

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 from 1943 to 1946. While in Spain, he studied bullfighting

Bullfighting

Bullfighting is a traditional spectacle of Spain, Portugal, southern France and some Latin American countries , in which one or more bulls are baited in a bullring for sport and entertainment...

 with Juan Belmonte

Juan Belmonte

Juan Belmonte García was a Spanish bullfighter, considered by many to have been the greatest matador of all time.-Life:...

, Manolete

Manolete

Manuel Laureano Rodríguez Sánchez , better known as Manolete, was a Spanish bullfighter.He rose to prominence shortly after the Spanish Civil War and is considered by some to be the greatest bullfighter of all time. His style was sober and serious, with few concessions to the gallery, and he...

, and Carlos Arruza

Carlos Arruza

Carlos Arruza , born Carlos Ruiz Camino, was one of the most prominent bullfighters of the 20th century. He was known as "El Ciclón" ....

. In 1945 he appeared on the same program with Belmonte and was awarded the ears of the bull. He is the only American to have fought in Spain, Mexico, and Peru.

In 1947, he worked as secretary to famed novelist Sinclair Lewis

Sinclair Lewis

Harry Sinclair Lewis was an American novelist, short-story writer, and playwright. In 1930, he became the first writer from the United States to be awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature, "for his vigorous and graphic art of description and his ability to create, with wit and humor, new types of...

. John Steinbeck

John Steinbeck

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 chose Conrad's Matador as his favorite book of the year, and the novel has been translated into over 20 languages. In 1958, Conrad was gored almost fatally in a bullfight.

Conrad served as a Golden Gate Awards juror at the 1959 San Francisco Film Festival. In 1965 he joined the Festival board and served for five years.

Conrad started the Santa Barbara Writers Conference in 1973 at the Cate School

Cate School

The Cate School, established in 1910 by Curtis Wolsey Cate, is a four-year, coeducational, college-preparatory boarding school in Carpinteria, California, United States....

, inviting well-known authors such as Eudora Welty

Eudora Welty

Eudora Alice Welty was an American author of short stories and novels about the American South. Her novel The Optimist's Daughter won the Pulitzer Prize in 1973. Welty was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom, among numerous awards. She was the first living author to have her works published...

, Gore Vidal

Gore Vidal

Gore Vidal is an American author, playwright, essayist, screenwriter, and political activist. His third novel, The City and the Pillar , outraged mainstream critics as one of the first major American novels to feature unambiguous homosexuality...

, Joan Didion

Joan Didion

Joan Didion is an American author best known for her novels and her literary journalism. Her novels and essays explore the disintegration of American morals and cultural chaos, where the overriding theme is individual and social fragmentation...

, and Ross Macdonald

Ross Macdonald

Not to be confused with John D. MacDonaldRoss Macdonald is the pseudonym of the American-Canadian writer of crime fiction Kenneth Millar...

. He and his wife Mary directed the literary gathering until Conrad sold the conference in 2004.

Fiction

• Matador (1952) ISBN 0884962865
• OCLC 153828 Zorro, a fox in the city (1971) ISBN 0385041497
• Endangered (1978) with Niels Mortensen ISBN 0399121714
• OCLC 232653594 Condor (1978) with Niels Mortensen
• Keepers of the Secret (1983) with Nico Mastorakis ISBN 9780515055443
• The Last Boat to Cadiz (2003) ISBN 1592660320
• The Second Life of John Wilkes Booth (2010) ISBN 1571782257

Nonfiction

• OCLC 1349149 La Fiesta Brava : The Art of the Bull Ring (1953)
• The Death of Manolete (1958) ISBN 1597775487
• OCLC 484064775 Barnaby Conrad's Encyclopedia of Bullfighting (1961)
• Tahiti (1962) ref: http://www.biblio.com/books/107906968.html
• Fun While it Lasted (1969) ISBN 071810773X
• A Revolting Transaction (1983) ISBN 0877955344
• Time Is All We Have : Four Weeks at the Betty Ford Center (1986) ISBN 0877958351
• Hemingway's Spain (1989) ISBN 0877015619
• Advice from the Masters: A Compendium for Writers (1991) ISBN 9781880093016
• Name Dropping : Tales from my Barbary Coast Saloon (1994) ISBN 006258507X
• Learning to Write Fiction from the Masters (1996) ISBN 9780452276574
• Name Dropping : Tales from my San Francisco Nightclub (1997) ISBN 0964970147
• Snoopy's Guide to the Writing Life (2002) with Monte Schultz ISBN 1582971943
• 101 Best Scenes ever Written : A Romp Through Literature for Writers and Readers (2006) ISBN 1884956564
• 101 Best Beginnings Ever Written : A Romp Through Literatary Openings for Writers and Readers (2009) ISBN 1884956866

As editor, translator or contributor

• OCLC 84219226 The Wounds of Hunger (1957) translation of Más Cornadas da el Hambre by Luis Spota
• OCLC 1576413 The second life of Captain Contreras (1960) translation of La Otra vida del Capitan Contreras by Torcuato Luca de Tena
• OCLC 1512811 My Life as a Matador The autobiography of Carlos Arruza. (1960)
• The Complete Guide to Writing Fiction (1990) with the staff of the Santa Barbara Writers Conference ISBN 0898793955
• "William Spratling" (1990) in Spratling Silver by Sandraline Cederwall and Hal Riney ISBN 0877018456
• The World of Herb Caen
  Herb Caen
  Herbert Eugene Caen was a Pulitzer Prize-winning San Francisco journalistwhose daily column of local goings-on, social and political happenings,...
  
   : San Francisco, 1938-1997 (1997) with Carole Vernier ISBN 0811818594
• The World's Shortest Stories : Murder. Love. Horror. Suspense. All this and much more in the most amazing short stories ever written—each one just 55 words long! (2006) Steve Moss, editor ISBN 0762403004

External links

• After Sixty Years, A Promise Kept to Sinclair Lewis, The New York Times
  The New York Times
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