W. P. Kinsella
W. P. Kinsella
William Patrick Kinsella, OC, OBCis a Canadian novelist and short story writer, known for his novel Shoeless Joe, which was adapted into the movie Field of Dreams in 1989. His work has often concerned baseball, First Nations people, and other Canadian issues...
NationalityCanadian
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth25 May 1935
CountryCanada
daughter player my-daughter
I've played [Scrabble] tournaments for about 20 years. My daughter, Erin, who lives with me, also travels to tournaments. While I'm not a top division player, I've won a number of tournaments.
softball
[I] Played a little softball, but there was nowhere on the field it was safe for me to be.
league
Have never been a minor league fan.
childhood parent kind
[I had ] uneventful, though isolated childhood. Good, kind, stable parents.
cancer wife giving
I lost my wife Barbara to cancer few years ago. I would give whatever time I have left to spend one more day with her.
track
At one time I'd been to every park except Baltimore and Houston, but can't even keep track of who plays where these days.
enjoyable
Until Color TV came along, BW TV was too muddy to be enjoyable.
moments significant significant-moments
Hardly anybody recognizes the most significant moments of their life at the time they happen.
crossings barriers
Perhaps crossing the barriers of time has freed me.
choices ifs
If I have a choice between looking something up and making it up, I'll make it up every time.
sneak-in profound laughing
I am an old-fashioned storyteller. I try to make people laugh and cry. A fiction writer's duty is to entertain. If you can sneak in something profound or symbolic, so much the better.
nonfiction
I don't have time to read nonfiction.
paper stuff nasty
I can still put down some pretty nasty stuff on paper, which is what I enjoy doing.