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Bill Hillmann

Bill Hillmann is an American author, storyteller, and journalist. He is a bull-runner and former boxer. His latest book is The Pueblos: My Quest to Run 101 Bull Runs in the Small Towns of Spain.

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YES I’M SANE

I Got Gored Running with Bulls. It Didn’t Stop Me.

After a surgery, a night of IV antibiotics and morphine, I checked myself out of the hospital and ran with the bulls again the next day.

Bill Hillmann

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