The Sun Also Rises to popularize the annual running of the bulls at the Festival of St. Fermin. The Sun Also Rises The Sun Also Rises, a 1926 novel by American Ernest Hemingway, portrays American and British expatriates who travel from Paris to the Festival of San Fermín in Pamplona to watch the running of the bulls and the bullfights. An early and enduring modernist novel, it received mixed reviews upon publication. However, Hemingway biographer Jeffrey Meyers writes that it is now "recognized as Hemingway's greatest work", and Hemingway scholar Linda Wagner-Martin calls it his most important novel. The novel was published in the
Anna Fermin Anna Fermin Anna Fermin is an American folk/country singer and songwriter. Anna Fermin was born in the Philippines but moved to Kenosha, Wisconsin with her family when she was a small child. Fermin attended art school in Chicago, Illinois, from 1989 and began playing acoustic guitar there. She has cited Steve Earle's song "Down the Road", which she later recorded, as an early inspiration. She played in a band called Anaboy briefly, then played solo locally. Anna Fermin formed the new Chicago-based band Trigger Gospel, with Andon Davis (guitar), Michael Krayniak (double and electric basses) and Paul Bivans (drums). They