16, 2016, in Hope, British Columbia, according to multiple news sources. Like many humorists, and like Swift, Kinsella rooted his comic writing in an angry response to the cruelties and injustices of life.īut Kinsella’s many critics would argue that the Canadian was less successful than Swift in performing the authorial alchemy that transforms pain and anger into healing, cathartic laughter. Kinsella, a Canadian author whose writing inspired the movie Field of Dreams, died Friday, Sept. William Patrick Kinsella was born in Edmonton, Alberta, in 1935. The prolific author, who produced seven novels, 19 short story collections, and a volume of poetry during his career could well have adopted Swift’s epitaph (“He has gone where savage indignation can no longer lacerate his heart”) for his own gravestone as he planned his doctor-assisted death in 2016. Kinsella, the Canadian novelist and short story writer, rocketed to international fame in 1989 when his whimsical baseball novel Shoeless Joe was adapted into the Kevin Costner hit film Field of Dreams. The next issue of Sunrise presented by Vancouver Sun will soon be in your inbox. If you don't see it, please check your junk folder. Manage Print Subscription / Tax ReceiptĪ welcome email is on its way.Vancouver Sun Run: Sign up & event info.
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