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Author, Journalist & Bull Runner
Bill Hillmann is an author, journalist and bull runner. He’s run with the bulls over three hundred times in Pueblos all across Spain and survived two gorings. Bill has run with the bulls in Pamplona each year since 2005, originally inspired by Ernest Hemingway’s book The Sun Also Rises. In the summer of 2016, he ran with the bulls more than 200 times in towns throughout Spain. On July 9, 2014, a bull gored Hillmann twice in the thigh at the festival of San Fermín in Pamplona, but he returned to bull-running in Pamplona in 2015. He is the author of Mozos: A Decade Running With the Bulls of Spain. His writing has appeared on NPR, VICE, Daily Mail, Washington Post and others. He gives commentary on the run for TIME, BBC World Service, and the TODAY show. More of Bill Hillmann’s expertise is available in our How to Run With the Bulls section. Sign up for the Runners Club to get online lessons from Bill and other bull running experts.