Death in the Afternoon is a non-fiction book written by Ernest Hemingway about the history, ceremony and traditions of Spanish bullfighting, published in 1932.

While essentially a guide book, there are three main sections: Hemingway's work, pictures, and a glossary of terms.

[1] In Death in the Afternoon, Hemingway explores the metaphysics of bullfighting—the ritualized, almost religious practice—that he considered analogous to the writer's search for meaning and the essence of life.

[1] Marianne Wiggins has written of Death in the Afternoon: "Read it for the writing, for the way it's told...

Death in the Afternoon was published by Scribner's on 23 September 1932 to a first edition print run of approximately 10,000 copies.