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
Point Fermin Light California, where it had been on display. The lighthouse is open daily except Monday and holidays. In 1986, the lighthouse appeared in a second-season episode of Amazing Stories, "Magic Saturday". The lighthouse also featured in two episodes of "MacGyver": "Flames's End" and "D.O.A.: MacGyver". In June 2011, the General Services Administration made the Point Fermin Light (along with 11 others) available at no cost to public organizations willing to preserve them. Point Fermin Light Point Fermin is a lighthouse on Point Fermin in San Pedro, California. The lighthouse was built in 1874 and designed by Paul J. Pelz, who also