![]() ![]() Kinsella's final book, Russian Dolls, is one long story with smaller stories inside it a struggling author lives in a rooming house where he meets a woman, whom he believes to be his Muse. Willie Steele's biography of Kinsella, Going the Distance, will be published by Douglas & McIntyre in 2018. The Thrill of the Grass has been republished as a Penguin Modern Classic. Rosetta Books now offer all the baseball books as ebooks. ![]() Kinsella is theĪuthor of numerous other books, including novels, short fiction collections, poetry, three baseball plays, and several While Kinsella is best known for his baseball fiction, he has a prolific output in many genres. The author’s inspirational words, whichĭefined the novel and the film-“If you build it, they will come,” “Go the distance,” andĮven “Field of dreams”-have taken their place in literature’s lexicon of ideas. The book was the prototype for the 1989 film 'Field of Dreams' starring Kevin Costner and James Earl Jones that earned three Academy Award nominations and is widely considered an American classic. ![]() Joe, which took on a new life as the movie Field of Dreams. Canadian author WP Kinsella - who wrote the novel that inspired the hit film Field of Dreams - has died, his literary agency said. ![]() “Bill” Kinsella was a legendary fiction writer, best known for his award-winning novel Shoeless (Bill) Kinsella passed away at the age of 81 in 2016. ![]()
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