Taurine writer Tom Lea and Matador John Fulton, p. 622 & 623, James A. Michener's Iberia: More photographs of the inscriptions and an original drawing in my copy of Iberia from people about whom Michener wrote.

   

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Autograph by taurine writer-artist Tom Lea, author of the novel The Brave Bulls, and an original drawing of a bull by American Matador John Fulton.  Though Lea is not mentioned in Iberia, I met him at John Fulton's home in Sevilla and had him sign the book.

 

An original drawing of a bull by American Matador John Fulton, commemorating the Miura bull Fulton fought on Christmas Day, 1968, a performance that I attended.

 

 Tom Lea's inscription in my copy of Iberia, p. 622, photograph by Iberia photographer Robert Vavra.

 

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 About Gerry Dawes

Gerry Dawes was the Producer and Program Host of Gerry Dawes & Friends, a weekly radio progam on WPWL 103.7 FM Pawling Public Radio in Pawling, New York.

  Dawes was awarded Spain's prestigious Premio Nacional de Gastronomía (National Gastronomy Award) in 2003. He writes and speaks frequently on Spanish wine and gastronomy and leads gastronomy, wine and cultural tours to Spain. He was a finalist for the 2001 James Beard Foundation's Journalism Award for Best Magazine Writing on Wine, won The Cava Institute's First Prize for Journalism for his article on cava in 2004, was awarded the CineGourLand “Cinéfilos y Gourmets” (Cinephiles & Gourmets) prize in 2009 in Getxo (Vizcaya) and received the 2009 Association of Food Journalists Second Prize for Best Food Feature in a Magazine for his Food Arts article, a retrospective piece about Catalan star chef, Ferran Adrià. 

In December, 2009, Dawes was awarded the Food Arts Silver Spoon Award in a profile written by José Andrés. 

". . .That we were the first to introduce American readers to Ferran Adrià in 1997 and have ever since continued to bring you a blow-by-blow narrative of Spain's riveting ferment is chiefly due to our Spanish correspondent, Gerry "Mr. Spain" Dawes, the messianic wine and food journalist raised in Southern Illinois and possessor of a self-accumulated doctorate in the Spanish table. Gerry once again brings us up to the very minute. . ." - - Michael & Ariane Batterberry, Editor-in-Chief/Publisher and Founding Editor/Publisher, Food Arts, October 2009. 
 

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