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Kinsella's most famous work is Shoeless Joe, upon which the movie Field of Dreams was based. In 1991, he was presented with an honorary Doctor of Literature degree from the University of Victoria. He travelled down to Iowa and earned a Master of Fine Arts in English degree through the Iowa Writers' Workshop at the University of Iowa in 1978.

Though he had been writing since he was a child (winning a YMCA contest at age 14), he began taking writing courses at the University of Victoria in 1970, receiving his Bachelor of Arts in Creative Writing there in 1974. In 1967, he moved to Victoria, British Columbia, running a pizza restaurant called Caesar's Italian Village and driving a taxi. When he was ten, the family moved to Edmonton.Īs an adult, he held a variety of jobs in Edmonton, including as a clerk for the Government of Alberta and managing a credit bureau. "I'm one of these people who woke up at age five knowing how to read and write," he says. Kinsella was raised until he was 10 years-old at a homestead near Darwell, Alberta, 60 km west of the city, home-schooled by his mother and taking correspondence courses. William Patrick Kinsella was born to John Matthew Kinsella and Olive Kinsella in Edmonton, Alberta. His work has often concerned baseball and Canada's First Nations and other Canadian issues. William Patrick Kinsella, OC, OBC was a Canadian novelist and short story writer.