W.P. Kinsella

Raised on a homestead near Darwell, Alberta, and later educated at the University of Victoria and the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, Kinsella emerged from a modest, self-directed literary upbringing to become a prolific Canadian author. His debut novel, Shoeless Joe, introduced a magical-realist tale of baseball that was transformed into the celebrated film Field of Dreams in 1989, while subsequent works… Read more

Biography written by WatchMoods, based on public sources