Shoeless Joe
W.P. Kinsella

William Patrick Kinsella was born may 25, 1935 in Edmonton, Alberta. His father

was a contractor and his mother was a printer. As an only child, Kinsella spent his early

years in a log cabin near Lac Ste.-Anne, sixty miles northwest of Edmonton. He rarely

saw other children and completed grades one through four by correspondence. " Having

no contact with children, I considered myself a small adult" (Authors and writers for

young adults, 130-131). His parents, grandmother, and aunt read to each other and told

stories, Kinsella began writing fantasies when he was five or six; mostly baseball

fantasies. Why did Kinsella like to write about baseball so much?

The family moved to Edmonton when he was ten, and his father, a former

Semi pro baseball player began taking him to baseball games. In eighth grade, Kinsella

won a prize for "Diamond Doom," a baseball mystery. At age eighteen, he published his

first story,......

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