W. P. Kinsella (1935–2016)
Forfatter af Shoeless Joe
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William Patrick Kinsella was born in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada on May 25, 1935. 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. Before becoming a full-time author, he was a vis mere professor of English at the University of Calgary. During his lifetime, he wrote approximately 30 books of fiction, nonfiction, and poetry. His first collection of baseball stories, Shoeless Joe Jackson Comes to Iowa, was published in 1980. 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. 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. 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. He was made an Officer of the Order of Canada in 1993. He received the Order of British Columbia in 2005 and the George Woodcock Lifetime Achievement Award in 2009. He died of a doctor-assisted death on September 16, 2016 at the age of 81. (Bowker Author Biography) vis mindre
Værker af W. P. Kinsella
A Series for the World: The Official Book of the 1992 World Series (Official Book of the World Series.) (1992) 13 eksemplarer
Born Indian 2 eksemplarer
Chapter One of a Work in Progress. 1 eksemplar
Baseball Tales: How I Got My Nickname / You Could Look It Up / The Rollicking God (1993) 1 eksemplar
Reports Concerning the Death of the Seattle Albatross Are Somewhat Exaggerated (short story) 1 eksemplar
The Adventures of Slugger McBatt 1 eksemplar
Associated Works
For the Love of Books: 115 Celebrated Writers on the Books They Love Most (1999) — Bidragyder — 452 eksemplarer
In Another Part of the Forest: An Anthology of Gay Short Fiction (1994) — Bidragyder — 175 eksemplarer
Adaptations: From Short Story to Big Screen: 35 Great Stories That Have Inspired Great Films (2005) — Bidragyder — 122 eksemplarer
Field of Fantasies: Baseball Stories of the Strange and Supernatural (2014) — Bidragyder — 44 eksemplarer
When the Giants Were Giants: Bill Terry and the Golden Age of New York Baseball (1994) — Introduktion — 36 eksemplarer
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- Juridisk navn
- Kinsella, William Patrick
- Andre navne
- Kinsella, Bill
- Fødselsdato
- 1935-05-25
- Dødsdag
- 2016-09-16
- Køn
- male
- Nationalitet
- Canada
- Fødested
- Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
- Dødssted
- Hope, British Columbia, Canada
- Dødsårsag
- doctor-assisted death
- Bopæl
- Alberta, Canada
British Columbia, Canada
Iowa, USA - Uddannelse
- University of Victoria (BA|1974)
University of Iowa (MFA|1978) - Erhverv
- university professor
novelist
short story writer - Organisationer
- University of Calgary
- Priser og hædersbevisninger
- Officer, Order of Canada (1993)
Order of British Columbia (2005)
Stephen Leacock Award for Humour (1987)
Books in Canada First Novel Award (1982)
George Woodcock Lifetime Achievement Award (2009) - Agent
- Carolyn Swayze Literary Agency
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