He died of a doctor-assisted death on Septemat the age of 81. He received the Order of British Columbia in 2005 and the George Woodcock Lifetime Achievement Award in 2009. He was made an Officer of the Order of Canada in 1993. His other novels included The Iowa Baseball Confederacy, The Further Adventures of Slugger McBatt, The Alligator Report, The Miss Hobbema Pageant, Magic Time, If Wishes Were Horses, Butterfly Winter, and Russian Dolls. Shoeless Joe won the Canadian Authors Association Prize, the Alberta Achievement Award, the Books in Canada First Novel Award, and the Houghton Mifflin Literary Fellowship. 'A moonlit novel about baseball, dreams, family, the land, and literature.'-Sports Illustrated'If you build it, he will come. Kinsella is the story about the beauty and history of baseball, and the power and endurance of a dream. In 1982, Kinsella expanded the stories into the novel Shoeless Joe, which was adapted into the 1989 movie Field of Dreams starring Kevin Costner and Ray Liotta. The inspiration for the beloved film Field of Dreams, Shoeless Joe by W. His first collection of baseball stories, Shoeless Joe Jackson Comes to Iowa, was published in 1980. During his lifetime, he wrote approximately 30 books of fiction, nonfiction, and poetry. Before becoming a full-time author, he was a professor of English at the University of Calgary. He received a bachelor of arts degree in creative writing at the University of Victoria in 1974 and a master of fine arts degree in English at the University of Iowa in 1978. William Patrick Kinsella was born in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada on May 25, 1935.
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