He was a Renaissance man with a talent for dwelling at epicenters of rarified, exclusive realms: as one of history’s few high-visibility American bullfighters (while in Spain, he went by the name “El Niño de California,” i.e., the California Kid), the proprietor of a who’s-who nightclub, and also as an accomplished artist (several portraits of his famous friends hang in DC’s National Portrait Gallery).
Monday, March 04, 2013
A full life …
… Paris Review – Barnaby Conrad: Author, Matador, Bon Vivant, and Thorn in Hemingway’s Side, Lesley M.M. Blume. (Hat tip, Dave Lull.)
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