Ernest Hemingway died on 2nd July 1961. Today is his death aniversary

Hemingway's obituary ran on the front page of The New York Times on July 3, 1961.

      Ernest Hemingway was found dead of a shotgun wound in the head at his home in Ketchum, Idaho, on 2 July. His wife, Mary, said that he had killed himself accidentally while cleaning the weapon. A double-barrelled, 12-gauge shotgun lay beside him with one chamber discharged.

Hemingway, whose writings won him a Nobel Prize and a Pullitzer Prize, was also a great traveller, who loved Spain and wrote about it and about bullfighting in Spain .

     Since his first visit to see the bullfighting at the Festival of San Fermín in Pamplona in 1923, Hemingway was fascinated by the sport; he saw in it the brutality of war juxtaposed against a cruel beauty. In June 1925, Hemingway and Hadley left Paris for their annual visit to Pamplona accompanied by a group of American and British expatriates. The trip inspired Hemingway's first novel, The Sun Also Rises, which he began to write immediately after the fiesta, finishing in September. The novel presents the culture of bullfighting with the concept of afición, depicted as an authentic way of life, contrasted with the Parisian bohemians, depicted as inauthentic. Hemingway decided to slow his pace and devoted six months to the novel's rewrite. The manuscript arrived in New York in April, and he corrected the final proof in Paris in August 1926. Scribner's published the novel in October.

Apart from this, he wrote Death in the afternoon, his second book on bullfighting, a non-fiction perfect companion piece to the fictional The Sun Also Rises, mentioned before.

Source: Wikipedia

Spanish bullfights, vocabulary and everything you need to know:
http://www.spanish-teaching.com/2010/8/spanish-bullfights-vocab-and-everything-you-need-to-know