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 Hillmann in 2013 | |
| Born | 1982 (age 41–42) Chicago, Illinois, U.S. |
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| Education | St. Joseph High School Elmhurst College Columbia College Chicago (MFA) |
Bill Hillmann (born 1982) is an American author, storyteller, and journalist. He is a bull-runner and former boxer.
Hillmann was born in Chicago in 1982, [1] and grew up on the city's North Side. He attended St. Joseph High School. [2] He has a bachelor's degree from Elmhurst College and an MFA from Columbia College Chicago. [3]
As an author, Hillmann is the author of the novel The Old Neighborhood (2014), [4] [5] [6] [7] and the nonfiction book Mozos: A Decade Running with the Bulls (2015) [8] [9] which was translated and published in Spain as Corriendo con Hemingway (2016). [1] [10]
As a journalist, Hillmann has written for NPR as well as for publications including the Toronto Star , Playboy , Chicago Tribune , Salon , Daily Mail , Los Angeles Times , Stuff, and The Washington Post . [11] [12] [13] [3] [14]
As a storyteller, Hillmann is the creator of the Windy City Story Slam. [15] [16] 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. [17] [18] [19] He has told stories at storytelling series in Philadelphia, [20] Portland, [21] San Francisco, [22] and Boston, [23] and won the Boulder Story Slam in Boulder, Colorado in 2014. [24] He has produced and performed in Story Slam events in London and at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, [25] [26] has participated in Book Slam, London's literary nightclub, [27] and has told stories on NPR's The Story and Snap Judgment . [28] [29]
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. [3] [7] [30] As a boxing journalist, Hillmann was the Chicago correspondent for Fightnews, and is the special boxing contributor for the Chicago Tribune RedEye. [31] [32]
Hillmann is an experienced participant in running of the bulls, and has been described as "the best young bull runner from the United States". [33] He has given expert commentary on the running of the bulls for CNN, [34] The Today Show , [35] CBS This Morning , [36] BBC World Service, [37] and Esquire Network. [38] 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. [39]
He was inspired to join the tradition by Ernest Hemingway's book The Sun Also Rises , [40] [41] and has taken part in the bull runs in Pamplona since 2005. [41] [42] [43] In 2011 and 2012 he wrote how-to guides on the running of the bulls for Outside magazine. [43] [44] By 2013 he had acquired the nickname "Buffalo Bill Hillmann", and in 2014 he co-authored the book Fiesta: How to Survive the Bulls of Pamplona with Alexander Fiske-Harrison and John Hemingway. [45] [46]
On July 9, 2014, a bull named Bravito [47] (Spanish for Brave one), gored Hillmann twice in the thigh at the festival of San Fermín in Pamplona, [45] [46] [48] but he returned to bull-running in Pamplona in 2015, [41] and published his memoir, Mozos: A Decade Running with the Bulls. [8] In the summer of 2016 he ran with the bulls more than 200 times in towns throughout Spain. [49] [50] 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. [41] [42] [51]
On July 8, 2017, he was gored by one of the bulls from José Escolar in Pamplona. [52]
The festival of San Fermín is a week-long, traditional celebration held annually in the city of Pamplona, Navarre, Spain. The celebrations start at noon on 6 July and continue until midnight on 14 July. A firework (chupinazo) starts the celebrations and the popular song Pobre de mí is sung at the end.
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Ronald Keith Ryan Hillman Jr. was an American professional football player who was a running back in the National Football League (NFL). He played college football for the San Diego State Aztecs, earning third-team All-American honors as a sophomore in 2011. He was selected by the Denver Broncos in the third round of the 2012 NFL draft and was a member of their team that won Super Bowl 50. Hillman later spent time with the Minnesota Vikings, San Diego Chargers, and Dallas Cowboys.
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Bill Hillmann is considered the best young bull runner from the United States
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