Barnaby Conrad III (born 1922) is an American artist and author.
Born in San Francisco, California, Conrad graduated from Taft School in Waterbury, Connecticut. He attended the University of North Carolina, where he was captain of the freshman boxing team. He also studied painting at the University of Mexico, where he also became interested in the sport of bullfighting. After being injured in the bullring, he graduated from Yale University in 1943.
Conrad was American Vice Consul to Seville, Málaga, and Barcelona from 1943 to 1946. While in Spain, he studied bullfighting with Juan Belmonte, Manolete, and Carlos Arruza. In 1945 he appeared on the same program with Belmonte and was awarded the ears of the bull. He is the only American to have fought in Spain, Mexico, and Peru.
In 1947, he worked as secretary to famed novelist Sinclair Lewis. John Steinbeck chose Conrad's Matador as his favorite book of the year, and the novel has been translated into over 20 languages. In 1958, Conrad was gored almost fatally in a bullfight.
Conrad served as a Golden Gate Awards juror at the 1959 San Francisco Film Festival. In 1965 he joined the Festival board and served for five years.
Conrad started the Santa Barbara Writers Conference in 1973 at the Cate School, inviting well-known authors such as Eudora Welty, Gore Vidal, Joan Didion, and Ross Macdonald. He and his wife Mary directed the literary gathering until Conrad sold the conference in 2004.
Zorro, a fox in the city (1971) ISBN 0385041497 OCLC 153828
Endangered (1978) with Niels Mortensen ISBN 0399121714
Condor (1978) with Niels Mortensen OCLC 232653594
Keepers of the Secret (1983) with Nico Mastorakis ISBN 9780515055443
The Last Boat to Cadiz (2003) ISBN 1592660320
Nonfiction
La Fiesta Brava : The Art of the Bull Ring (1953) OCLC 1349149
The Death of Manolete (1958) ISBN 1597775487
Barnaby Conrad's Encyclopedia of Bullfighting (1961) OCLC 484064775
Fun While it Lasted (1969) ISBN 071810773X
Interviews with Master Photographers: Minor White, Imogen Cunningham, Cornell Capa, Elliott Erwitt, Yousuf Karsh, Arnold Newman, Lord Snowdon, Brett Weston (1977) with James Danziger ISBN 9780448221830
A Revolting Transaction (1983) ISBN 0877955344
Time Is All We Have : Four Weeks at the Betty Ford Center (1986) ISBN 0877958351
Absinthe: History in a Bottle (1988) ISBN 0811816508
Hemingway's Spain (1989) ISBN 0877015619
John Register (1989) ISBN 9780877017011
Advice from the Masters: A Compendium for Writers (1991) ISBN 9781880093016
Ghost Hunting in Montana : A Search for Roots in the Old West (1994) ISBN 0062585517
Name Dropping : Tales from my Barbary Coast Saloon (1994) ISBN 006258507X
Les Chiens de Paris (1995) ISBN 0811807436
The martini : An Illustrated History of an American Classic (1995) ISBN 9780811807173
Les chats de Paris (1996) ISBN 9780811811866
The Cigar (1996) ISBN 9780811814492
Name Dropping : Tales from my San Francisco Nightclub (1997) ISBN 0964970147
John Register : Persistent Observer (1998) ISBN 9780942627503
Pan Am : An Aviation Legend (1999) ISBN 0942627555
The Blonde : A Celebration of the Golden Era from Harlow to Monroe (1999) ISBN 9780811822626
Mark Stock : Paintings (2000) ISBN 9780942627640
Snoopy's Guide to the Writing Life (2002) with Monte Schultz ISBN 1582971943
101 Best Scenes ever Written : A Romp Through Literature for Writers and Readers (2006) ISBN 1884956564
101 Best Beginnings Ever Written : A Romp Through Literatary Openings for Writers and Readers (2009) ISBN 1884956866
As editor, translator or contibutor
The Wounds of Hunger (1957) translation of Más Cornadas da el Hambre by Luis Spota OCLC 84219226
The second life of Captain Contreras (1960) translation of La Otra vida del Capitan Contreras by Torcuato Luca de Tena OCLC 1576413
My Life as a Matador The autobiography of Carlos Arruza. (1960) OCLC 1512811
The Complete Guide to Writing Fiction (1990) with the staff of the Santa Barbara Writers Conference ISBN 0898793955
"William Spratling" (1990) in Spratling Silver by Sandraline Cederwall and Hal Riney ISBN 0877018456
The World of Herb Caen : San Francisco, 1938-1997 (1997) with Carole Vernier ISBN 0811818594
Richard Diebenkorn : Figurative Works on Paper (2003) ISBN 0811842193
The World's Shortest Stories : Murder. Love. Horror. Suspense. All this and much more in the most amazing short stories ever written...each one just 55 words long! (2006) Steve Moss, editor ISBN 0762403004