Barnaby Conrad

Barnaby Conrad (born March 27, 1922)^[1] is an American artist and author.

Born in San Francisco, California, Conrad graduated from Taft School in Watertown, Connecticut. He attended the University of North Carolina, 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. After being injured in the bullring, he graduated from Yale University in 1943.^[1][2]

Conrad was American Vice Consul to Seville, Málaga, and Barcelona from 1943 to 1946. While in Spain, he studied bullfighting with Juan Belmonte, Manolete, and Carlos Arruza. In 1945 he appeared on the same program with Belmonte and was awarded the ears of the bull. He is the only American male to have fought in Spain, Mexico, and Peru.^[1]

In 1947, he worked as secretary to famed novelist Sinclair Lewis. John Steinbeck 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.^[2]

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.^[3][4]

Conrad started the Santa Barbara Writers Conference in 1973 at the Cate School, inviting well-known authors such as Eudora Welty, Gore Vidal, Joan Didion, and Ross Macdonald.^[2] He and his wife Mary directed the literary gathering until Conrad sold the conference in 2004.^[5]

Works by Barnaby Conrad

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Fiction

• Matador (1952) ISBN 0-88496-286-5
• OCLC 153828 Zorro, a fox in the city (1971) ISBN 0-385-04149-7
• Endangered (1978) with Niels Mortensen ISBN 0-399-12171-4
• OCLC 232653594 Condor (1978) with Niels Mortensen
• Keepers of the Secret (1983) with Nico Mastorakis ISBN 978-0-515-05544-3
• The Last Boat to Cadiz (2003) ISBN 1-59266-032-0
• The Second Life of John Wilkes Booth (2010) ISBN 1-57178-225-7

Nonfiction

• OCLC 1349149 La Fiesta Brava : The Art of the Bull Ring (1953)
• The Death of Manolete (1958) ISBN 1-59777-548-7
• 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 0-7181-0773-X
• A Revolting Transaction (1983) ISBN 0-87795-534-4
• Time Is All We Have : Four Weeks at the Betty Ford Center (1986) ISBN 0-87795-835-1
• Hemingway's Spain (1989) ISBN 0-87701-561-9
• Advice from the Masters: A Compendium for Writers (1991) ISBN 978-1-880093-01-6
• Name Dropping : Tales from my Barbary Coast Saloon (1994) ISBN 0-06-258507-X
• Learning to Write Fiction from the Masters (1996) ISBN 978-0-452-27657-4
• Name Dropping : Tales from my San Francisco Nightclub (1997) ISBN 0-9649701-4-7
• Snoopy's Guide to the Writing Life (2002) with Monte Schultz ISBN 1-58297-194-3
• 101 Best Scenes ever Written : A Romp Through Literature for Writers and Readers (2006) ISBN 1-884956-56-4
• 101 Best Beginnings Ever Written : A Romp Through Literatary Openings for Writers and Readers (2009) ISBN 1-884956-86-6

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 0-89879-395-5
• "William Spratling" (1990) in Spratling Silver by Sandraline Cederwall and Hal Riney ISBN 0-87701-845-6
• The World of Herb Caen : San Francisco, 1938-1997 (1997) with Carole Vernier ISBN 0-8118-1859-4
• 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 0-7624-0300-4

References

1. ^ ^{a b c} "About Barnaby Conrad". The Death of Manolete by Barnaby Conrad. Pippin Publishing. http://www.barnabyconrad.com/about_Barnaby_Conrad.html. Retrieved 18 April 2010. 
2. ^ ^{a b c} "Barnaby Conrad - Last Boat to Cadiz". Capra Press. http://www.caprapress.com/books/last_boat.php. Retrieved 18 April 2010. 
3. ^ "Our History". San Francisco International Film Festival - The First to Fifty. San Francisco Film Society. http://history.sffs.org/our_history/. Retrieved 18 April 2010. 
4. ^ Landazuri, Margarita. "Interview with Barnaby Conrad". San Francisco Film Society Oral History Project. San Francisco Film Society. http://history.sffs.org/media_assets/pdf/barnaby_conrad_oh_interview.pdf. Retrieved 18 April 2010. 
5. ^ Brantingham, Barney (29 March 2010). "Monte Schulz Bids for S.B. Writers Conference". Santa Barbara Independent (Santa Barabara, California): On the Beat. http://www.independent.com/news/2010/mar/29/monte-schulz-bids-sb-writers-conference/. Retrieved 18 April 2010. 

External links

• After Sixty Years, A Promise Kept to Sinclair Lewis, The New York Times accessed 01-26-2011