
Canadian native W. P. Kinsella has published more than a dozen books and 200 short stories. He is best known for the award-winning novel Shoeless Joe, the basis for the film Field of Dreams. Other films made from his work include Dance Me Outside and Lieberman in Love. According to the New York Times, Kinsella’s work “defines a world in which magic and reality combine to make us laugh and think about the perceptions we take for granted.”