Bill Hillmann

Bill Hillmann American Author
Bill Hillmann in 2013

Bill Hillmann (born 1982) is an American author, storyteller, and journalist. He is a bull-runner and former boxer.

Early life and education

Hillmann was born in Chicago in 1982,[1] and grew up on the city's North Side. He has a bachelor's degree from Elmhurst College and an MFA from Columbia College Chicago.[2]

Writing

Hillmann is the author of the novel The Old Neighborhood (2014),[3][4][5][6] and the nonfiction book Mozos: A Decade Running with the Bulls (2015)[7][8] which was translated and published in Spain as Corriendo con Hemingway (2016).[1][9]

As a storyteller, Hillmann is the creator of the Windy City Story Slam.[10][11] He also created the National Story Slam, in which ten storytellers representing different storytelling series across the country performed at the main stage of the Chicago Tribune Printer's Row Lit Fest.[12][13][14] He has told stories at storytelling series in Philadelphia,[15] Portland,[16] San Francisco,[17] and Boston,[18] and won the Boulder Story Slam in Boulder, Colorado in 2014.[19] He has produced and performed in Story Slam events in London and at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival.[20][21][22] He has also told stories on NPR's The Story and Snap Judgment.[23][24]

As a journalist, Hillmann has written for NPR as well as for the Toronto Star, Playboy, Chicago Tribune, Salon, Daily Mail, Los Angeles Times and Washington Post.[25][26][2][27] He was the Chicago correspondent for Fightnews, and is the special boxing contributor for the Chicago Tribune RedEye.[28][29]

Boxing

Hillmann is a 2002 Chicago Golden Gloves boxing champion representing the Windy City Gym and a two time selection for the Chicago Golden Gloves International Traveling Team.[2][6][30]

Bull-running

Hillmann is an experienced participant in running of the bulls, and has been described as "the best young bull runner from the United States".[31] He has given expert commentary on the running of the bulls for CNN,[32] The Today Show,[33] CBS This Morning,[34] and Esquire Network.[35] His audio essay "Running with the Bulls in Pamplona" for WBEZ Chicago Public Radio won an Edward R. Murrow Award from the Radio Television Digital News Association in 2010.[36]

He was inspired to join the tradition by Ernest Hemingway's book The Sun Also Rises,[37][38] and has taken part in the bull runs in Pamplona since 2005.[38][39][40] In 2011 and 2012 he wrote how-to guides on the running of the bulls for Outside magazine.[40][41] By 2013 he had acquired the nickname "Buffalo Bill Hillmann",[31][37] and in 2014 he co-authored the book Fiesta: How to Survive the Bulls of Pamplona with Alexander Fiske-Harrison and John Hemingway.[42][43]

On July 9, 2014 at the festival of San Fermín in Pamplona a bull gored Hillmann twice in the thigh,[42][43][44] but he returned to bull-running in Pamplona in 2015,[38] and published his memoir, Mozos: A Decade Running with the Bulls.[7] In the summer of 2016 he ran with the bulls more than 200 times in towns throughout Spain.[45][46] He has stated that his favorite running of the bulls is the oldest, in Cuéllar, a small town about two hours north of Madrid, where hundreds of horsemen guide the bulls 3 miles (5 km) to the town and into the run.[38][39][47]

Bibliography

References

  1. 1 2 Seoane, Andrés (6 July 2016). "Bill Hillmann: 'Para correr un encierro hay que estar dispuesto a morir'" (in Spanish). El Cultural. Retrieved 21 November 2016.
  2. 1 2 3 "Bill Hillmann Will Serve as Final Judge for the 2016 Nick Adams Short Story Contest". Associated Colleges of the Midwest. 22 November 2015. Retrieved 21 November 2016.
  3. ↑ Samarov, Dmitry (11 April 2014). "Review: 'The Old Neighborhood' by Bill Hillmann". Chicago Tribune. Retrieved 21 November 2016.
  4. ↑
  5. ↑ Hoffert, Barbara (3 June 2014). "Top Indie Fiction: 30 Key Titles Beyond the Best-Sellers List for Spring/Summer 2014". Library Journal.
  6. 1 2 Ludwig, Jerome. "Best of Chicago 2014 – Best New Book by a Former Chicago Golden Gloves Champ: The Old Neighborhood by Bill Hillmann". Chicago Reader. Retrieved 1 November 2016.
  7. 1 2 Keilman, John (7 July 2015). "Two New Books Tackle The Running of the Bulls". Chicago Tribune.
  8. ↑ "Nonfiction Book Review: Mozos: A Decade Running with the Bulls of Spain by Bill Hillman". Publishers Weekly. July 2015. Retrieved 21 November 2016.
  9. ↑ Abella, Carlos (9 October 2016). "Bill Hillmann: Corriendo con Hemingway. Un mozo americano en los sanfermines". El Imparcial (in Spanish). Retrieved 1 November 2016.
  10. ↑ Hageman, William (25 February 2010). "The Story Slam plot thickens during finals: 5 local storytellers will step". The Chicago Tribune.
  11. ↑ Clark, Alex (30 July 2010). "The new wave of literary events". The Guardian.
  12. ↑ "National Story Slam ref 4".
  13. ↑ "National Story Slam Ref 3".
  14. ↑ "National Story Slam" (PDF).
  15. ↑ "Philadelphia".
  16. ↑ "Portland".
  17. ↑ "San Francisco".
  18. ↑ "Boston".
  19. ↑ "Boulder Colorado".
  20. ↑ "London".
  21. ↑ "Spectator".
  22. ↑ "Book Slam Alumni".
  23. ↑ "The Story".
  24. ↑ "Running With The Bulls". Snap Judgment. Retrieved 2016-11-01.
  25. ↑ "Salon: George Whitman, Paris and Company Bookshop".
  26. ↑ "Playboy: Irvine Welsh Interview".
  27. ↑ "LA Times".
  28. ↑ "RedEye Boxing".
  29. ↑ "Fightnews".
  30. ↑ Hageman, William (12 August 2011). "Remarkable Person: Bill Hillmann". Chicago Tribune.
  31. 1 2 Frayer, Lauren (9 July 2014). "'Buffalo' Bill Hillmann, author of bull-run guide, gored at Pamplona". Los Angeles Times. Bill Hillmann is considered the best young bull runner from the United States
  32. ↑ "CNN International".
  33. ↑ "NBC TODAY".
  34. ↑ "CBS This Morning".
  35. ↑ "Esquire Network".
  36. ↑ "Edward Murrow Award".
  37. 1 2 Clayfield, Matthew (2013-04-12). "Beyond the bull in Pamplona". The Australian. Retrieved 2016-11-22.
  38. 1 2 3 4 Khazan, Olga (2015-07-10). "What It's Like to Be Gored at the Running of the Bulls ... and go back to run the next year". The Atlantic. Retrieved 2016-11-22.
  39. 1 2 Hillmann, Bill (18 July 2014). "I got gored in Pamplona. But I will run with the bulls again". Opinion. Washington Post. Retrieved 22 November 2016.
  40. 1 2 Hillmann, Bill (2011-06-23). "How to Survive the Running of the Bulls". Outside Online. Retrieved 2016-11-01.
  41. ↑ Hillmann, Bill (25 June 2012). "How to Run With the Bulls". Retrieved 21 November 2016.
  42. 1 2 Kassam, Ashifa (9 July 2014). "Author of bullrunning survival guide gored at Pamplona festival". The Guardian. Retrieved 21 November 2016.
  43. 1 2 Minder, Raphael (9 July 2014). "Co-Author of Bull-Running Guide Is Gored in Pamplona". The New York Times.
  44. ↑
  45. ↑ Hillmann, Bill (2016-09-29). "Chicago man locks horns with bull in Spain to rescue friend". RedEye. Retrieved 2016-11-22.
  46. ↑ Gutiérrez, Natxo (September 29, 2016). "El hombre de los 200 encierros". Diario de Navarra (in Spanish). Retrieved November 25, 2016 – via thedangeroussummerblog.com.
  47. ↑ Fiske-Harrison, Alexander (31 May 2013). "Spain: 'The real old stuff'". Financial Times.

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