Barnaby Conrad

Barnaby Conrad Jr. (March 27, 1922 – February 12, 2013)

Born in San Francisco, California, to an affluent family, Conrad was raised in Hillsborough. He spent a year at the Cate School in Carpinteria, California, before being sent east and graduating from the Taft School in Watertown, Connecticut, in the class of 1940.

He attended the University of North Carolina, where he was captain of the freshman boxing team. He also studied painting at the National Autonomous University of Mexico, where he also became interested in bullfighting. After being injured in the bullring, he returned to college and graduated from Yale University in 1943. He wanted to join the Navy after Yale, but his bullfighting injury prevented that.

John Steinbeck selected Conrad's Matador as his favorite book of the year, and the novel has been translated into 28 languages. Royalties from Matador provided Conrad with the capital to open El Matador nightclub in San Francisco in 1953. In 2006, the Spanish writer Salvador Gutiérrez Solís published his biography, Barnaby Conrad: A Spanish Passion (Fundación José Manuel Lara), which tells the story of Conrad's life in Spain and his connection with the world of bullfighting.

Death Conrad died on February 12, 2013, at his home in Carpinteria, California. He had been in hospice care for three weeks. Zorro, a fox in the city (1971); / Endangered (1978) with Niels Mortensen OCLC 232653594 Condor (1978) with Niels Mortensen Keepers of the Secret (1983) with Nico Mastorakis; The Last Boat to Cadiz (2003); The Second Life of John Wilkes Booth (2010);

Nonfiction La Fiesta Brava : The Art of the Bull Ring (1953), worldcat.org; The Death of Manolete (1958); Barnaby Conrad's Encyclopedia of Bullfighting (1961); Tahiti (1962) Fun While it Lasted (1969); A Revolting Transaction (1983); Time Is All We Have: Four Weeks at the Betty Ford Center (1986); Hemingway's Spain (1989); Advice from the Masters: A Compendium for Writers (1991); Name Dropping: Tales from my Barbary Coast Saloon (1994); Learning to Write Fiction from the Masters (1996); Name Dropping: Tales from my San Francisco Nightclub (1997); Snoopy's Guide to the Writing Life (2002; with Monte Schulz); 101 Best Scenes ever Written: A Romp Through Literature for Writers and Readers (2006); 101 Best Beginnings Ever Written: A Romp Through Literary Openings for Writers and Readers (2009);

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) OCLC 1512811 My Life as a Matador The autobiography of Carlos Arruza (1956) The Complete Guide to Writing Fiction (1990) with the staff of the Santa Barbara Writers Conference; "William Spratling" (1990) in Spratling Silver by Sandraline Cederwall and Hal Riney; The World of Herb Caen: San Francisco, 1938-1997 (1997; with Carole Vernier); 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;

Famous "sports" quote The famous quote "Only bullfighting, mountain climbing and auto racing are sports, the rest are merely games" can be attributed to Conrad, Barnaby Conrad, Una pasión española (Biografía), escrita por Salvador Gutiérrez Solís.