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W. P. Kinsella

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W. P. Kinsella

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Full Name: William Patrick Kinsella
Born: May 25, 1935
Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
Died: September 16, 2016
Hope, British Columbia, Canada
Occupation: writer
Nationality: Canadian
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Biography

William Patrick "W. P." Kinsella, Order of Canada & Order of British Columbia, was a Canadian novelist and short story writer, known for his novel Shoeless Joe (1982), which was adapted into the movie Field of Dreams in 1989. His work often concerned baseball, First Nations people, and other Canadian issues.

Shoeless Joe won Kinsella the prestigious Houghton Mifflin Literary Fellowship and the Books in Canada First Novel Award in 1982.


Works in the WWEnd Database

 Non Series Works

 (2015)
 (1982)