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Extractions: Using inline citations (September 2007) William Patrick Kinsella OC OBC (born May 25 ) is a Canadian novelist and short story writer. His work has often concerned baseball and Canada's First Nations and other Canadian issues. Though born in Edmonton Alberta , 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. "I'm one of these people who woke up at age five knowing how to read and write," he says. When he was ten, the family moved to Edmonton. As an adult, he held a variety of jobs in Edmonton, including as a clerk for the Government of Alberta and managing a credit bureau. In 1967, he moved to Victoria, British Columbia , running a pizza restaurant called Caesar's Italian Village and driving a taxi. 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 , receiving his Bachelor of Arts in Creative Writing there in 1974. He traveled down to
Extractions: It's too bad there are no Hallmark cards saying, "Sorry your loved one was killed by a foul ball." The Iowa Baseball Confederacy Back to Short Story Index page Back to Novels Index page W. P. Kinsella, Canadian fiction writer, is one of the most prolific authors of baseball fiction. Kinsella's fiction is by turns exhilarating and irritating. He has a very creative-writerly prose and has a fount of clever ideas about baseball and life. His best work is among the best contemporary fiction of any kind, but his weaker work can be very trying. Below I try to offer a guide to the range of his baseball fiction (he has also written several other novels and story collections). Selected criticism: Aitken McGimpsey Slice-of-life story about ordinary folk turned ultra-rich. Baseball Fantastic . Kingston, ON: Quarry, 2000. A collection of uncanny and SF baseball stories edited by Kinsella. "The Baseball Spur."
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Extractions: October 8-10, 1991 W.P. Kinsella W.P. Kinsella has published 15 books and over 200 short stories, but he is best known for his award-winning novel Shoeless Joe, which was made into the highly praised film Field of Dreams . The New York Times has said that his work "defines a world in which magic and reality combine to make us laugh and think about the perceptions we take for granted." His life, like his fiction, seems to have an element of magic to it. Kinsella writes primarily about baseball ( The Thrill of the Grass and The Iowa Baseball Confederacy ) and Indians ( The Moccasin Telegraph and The Fencepost Chronicle ), but he is quick to point out that he is neither an Indian nor a baseball player. He grew up in Canada, an only child, in almost total isolation on a farm in Northern Alberta. He did not attend school until fifth grade, studying at home by correspondence. Having no playmates, he created fictional friends and wrote about them from age six on. He worked at a series of jobs-clerk, insurance investigator, restaurateuruntil he eventually went back to school and received a BA. in Creative Writing at age 39. Shortly before his forty-second birthday his first book, Dance Me Outside , was published. At the age of 45, with the publication of
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Extractions: Now Playing Movie/TV News My Movies DVD New Releases ... search All Titles TV Episodes My Movies Names Companies Keywords Characters Quotes Bios Plots more tips SHOP W.P... DVD VHS CD IMDb W.P. Kinsella Quicklinks categorized by type by year by ratings by votes titles for sale by genre by keyword power search credited with tv schedule biography other works contact Top Links biography by votes awards news articles ... message board Filmographies categorized by type by year by ratings ... tv schedule Biographical biography other works publicity contact ... message board External Links official sites miscellaneous photographs sound clips ... video clips advertisement photos board add contact details Photos Add photo(s) and resume with IMDb Resume Services Date of Birth: 25 May Edmonton, Alberta, Canada more Trivia: Major baseball fan. more Writer: TV series (unknown episodes) Dance Me Outside (1995) (book) Lieberman in Love (1995) (short story) Field of Dreams John Cat (1984) (story) Other Works: Book: "The Iowa Baseball Confederacy," 1986. more Genres: Drama Short more Plot Keywords: more STARmeter: since last week why?
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Extractions: where you can nominate a new famous Canadian or debate an old one. W.P. Kinsella has written many stories about baseball. Some of them were murder mysteries, some of them light comedy, all of them deeply entertaining. His novel "Shoeless Joe" was made into the hit Kevin Costner film " Field of Dreams" in 1989.
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Extractions: 1990 to 1995 Alphabetical Index ... O.B.C. Main Page William Patrick Kinsella - Yale W.P. Kinsella's writing has had a significant impact on the North American literary landscape. His talent and dedication to his writing have allowed him to remain one of the most successful and prolific writers in Canada. In the past 25 years, he has published more than 30 novels and collections of short stories, hundreds of articles and reviews, poems, stage and screen plays. Mr. Kinsella's work has been translated into several languages, and several of his works have been made into movies and television series. The most famous of these is his book Shoeless Joe, upon which the movie Field of Dreams was made, garnering three Academy Award nominations.
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Extractions: Shoeless Joe by W.P. Kinsella is one of my favorite books by one of my favorite authors. The imagery is rich and fluid, and the similes jump off the page and into the heart. Here you will find some information about many of the real characters who abound in the novel and some of the actions which made them worth writing about. W.P. Kinsella Click here for a short bio of the author. This site contains a bibliography and reviews. You can even write your own, if you wish. McDougal-Littell For some news stories which provide some insight into Kinsella, Jam Books is the place to be. Shoeless Joe Jackson and the 1919 Black Sox Eight members of the 1919 Chicago White Sox were accused by then Baseball Commissioner Kenesaw Mountain Landis of throwing the Series to the hapless Reds in exchange for kickbacks from gamblers. These men were thrown out of baseball forever. Shoeless Joe Jackson was one of these men. You can learn the whole shebang about Jackson and the scandal at the Virtual Hall of Fame . However, for the down and dirty stuff you can get
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Extractions: For the record, author W.P. Kinsella is not a baseball player, American or Native. It's fun to hear Field of Dreams fanatics in the United States imagining what W.P. Kinsella must be like. He must be a baseball player. Nope. He must be a religious man. Nope. Heck, the fella who wrote Shoeless Joe, the great American baseball novel which was the basis for the movie Field of Dreams, must be an American, right? Wrong again. The biography/documentary special Curveball: W.P. Kinsella, which debuts tonight on Bravo, begins by interviewing various people who have made the pilgrimage to the real-life baseball diamond in Iowa where the most-memorable scenes in Field of Dreams were shot. You may never have pondered the possibility of a pilgrimage, but if you have a vague fascination with the movie, then Curveball will be of some interest to you. We know from first-hand experience that when the movie Field of Dreams came out in 1989, it made grown men cry. Sitting in a theatre and hearing sniffles, a quick glance around confirmed that it was the middle-aged males who were choked up, not the females.
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Extractions: the Carillon In a recent interview with Saturday Night, author W.P. Kinsella revealed information regarding a 1997 car accident which had not been mentioned in public until this month. In the interview, Kinsella spoke frankly about the accident and was cautiously optimistic about his future in fiction. While talking with the Carillon, W.P. was considerably less hopeful of the return of his creative forces. CARILLON: What can you tell us about the car accident in 1997? KINSELLA: Well, I was walking down the sidewalk and a fellow backed out of the driveway and hit me. A couple of steps forward and I would have been killed. Actually, he just brushed me and I went down on my tailbone and then on my head. CARILLON: What effects are you suffering from it? KINSELLA: I just lost my sense of concentration. A couple of times, I¹ve been feeling very hopeful that I was going to get it back and I¹ll do a day or two of editing, but I just can¹t get back at it at all. You probably read the piece in Saturday Night. I was very hopeful when I did that interview. I had actually done a couple days of editing and was feeling quite good, but I¹ve done virtually nothing since then. I don¹t know - I¹ve kind of gone from being a Type A to a Type B personality. I¹ve always been on the edge - just go, go, go and now I¹m not doing anything and I don¹t care. (laughs) CARILLON: One attribute of a Type A personality is a quick temper - one thing for which you have always been known. How has that changed?
Extractions: john morash, the peak At the end of last summer I attended a wedding in Prince George, B.C., and had the oppurtunity to meet Kinsella, the groom's father's best friend. I thought this was a great opportunity to gain some practical insight on writing from a writer who, in his words, "Can't quite play with Grisham or King, but [has] done quite well in Canada, and around the world." The second must for a fiction writer is an imagination. A writer must have an imagination mediated by the ability to "tone up the mundane and tone down the bizarre." Kinsella explains the imaginative juggling act a fiction writer must perform every day. This means studying the personalities around you and using their characters in totally different situations. Kinsella says, "I get great story ideas from reading the daily news and applying the characters I've created to those situations." Kinsella has engaged in a life-long study of people and how they act and react. This is perhaps his greatest asset as a writer, because he instantly makes connections with his readers through simple truths of human character and behavior. To make a character believable without threading paragraph after paragraph with descriptions of appearance, "you can give a character something distinctive, a mannerism, something easy to remember which allows the readers in." For example, "a person who is constantly pushing up his glasses or a woman who always flips her hair out of her eyes."
THE IOWA BASEBALL CONFEDERACY W W.P. kinsella Totem 1986 Pb 310pgs ISBN 000-223129-8. Whimsical story of Gideon Clarke who, inherits from his father the need to prove the existence of http://www.yetanotherbookreview.com/iowa_baseball_confederacy.htm
Extractions: Whimsical story of Gideon Clarke who, inherits from his father the need to prove the existence of the Iowa Baseball Confederacy and a game their allstars played against the Chicago Cubs in 1908. Problem is no one other than Gideon or his deceased father seem to be aware of the game having ever taken place. Following in the sentimental mode of Shoeless Joe , author Kinsella spins another magical yarn centred on baseball and the lives of people who get caught up in the various mysteries surrounding it. Here though, I believe Kinsella didn't create the same romantic elements of both the game of baseball nor the ups and downs of the lives of his characters as he did in Shoeless Joe , and therefore would view this as an enjoyable, yet weaker sister story.
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Extractions: William Patrick Kinsella Success did not come easily to William Patrick Kinsella. Born in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, Kinsella says that he always thought of himself as a writer, though he wrote more than 50 stories before getting published. He also worked at various odd jobs, such as running his own pizza restaurant, managing a credit agency, and driving a taxicab. Kinsella did not begin college until he was in his 30s. Kinsella grew up loving the game of baseball, though he was a poor player himself. He penned his first baseball story, a murder mystery called "Diamond Doom," when he was in the eighth grade. Kinsella published his first collection of baseball stories, Shoeless Joe Jackson Comes to Iowa, in 1980. He expanded the title story into his award-winning novel Shoeless Joe (1982), which garnered much attention when it was adapted and produced as the 1989 Hollywood movie
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Extractions: utmSetVar('lit_all'); Entire Site Literature Science History Business Soc. Sciences Health Arts College Journals Search All Criticism: Printable Version Download PDF Cite this Page (Full name William Patrick Kinsella) Canadian short story writer, editor, and novelist. The following entry presents an overview of Kinsella's career through 2001. For further information on his life and works, see CLC, Volumes 27 and 43. Kinsella has earned critical acclaim for his short story collections focusing on modern-day Canadian Indians and for his novels and short stories about baseball. Several of his worksâincluding Dance Me Outside (1977) and The Moccasin Telegraph (1984)âattempt to debunk stereotypes and distortions of the North American Indian by portraying contemporary Native Americans struggling to survive in caucasian societies. In the novels Shoeless Joe (1982) and The Iowa Baseball Confederacy (1986) and the short story collection The Thrill of the Grass (1984), Kinsella uses the game of baseball as his primary metaphor, focusing less on the onfield exploits of his characters than on the magical and rejuvenating force that the sport provides for its followers. Kinsella's skill at blending fantasy with realism in a poetically whimsical style has been noted by many critics and has prompted comparisons to American humorist Richard Brautigan.
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