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, a science fiction tale about a totalitarian society, in the Alberta Civil Service
Bulletin.
Kinsella worked as a government clerk, manager of a retail credit company,
account executive for the City of Edmonton, owner of a n Italian restaurant, and taxicab
driver while attending the University of Victoria where he received a B.A. in 1974. Then
he attended a writer's workshop at the University of Iowa, earning a master of fine arts
degree in 1978. He taught at the University of Calgary from 1978 to 1983. But he hated
the academic life so he quit to write full time. Kinsella was married to Mildred Clay from
1965 to 1978. He married the writer Ann Knight in 1978 and they settled in White Rock,
British Columbia and Iowa City, Iowa when not traveling to attend major league baseball
games. Kinsella has two daughters, Shannon and Erin.
In 1982 Kinsella wrote a best selling novel, "Shoeless Joe". "Kinsellas 1982
mythical baseball fable drew on the author's long-term love of the game" ( Wilson,
Kathleen. 229). This book is about a middle-aged man that lives on a farm with his wife,
Annie and daughter, Karin. One day when this man, Ray Kinsella, is walking through his
cornfields he hears the voice of an major league baseball announcer. It says, " if you
build it, he will come". Ray soon finds out that "it" is a baseball field and "he" is Rays
father who used to play AAA ball.
1930: Married Carol Henning and moved to the family home in Pacific Grove. His father
Before Barnes went to college, at North Carolina College (now North Carolina Central University), he impregnated a young girl and was forced to marry her in order to save face, and his first child was born in 1957. Although Barnes’ marriage was not a successful one, he adored his newbor...
Ray Kinsella is a hopeless dreamer and when he hears the voice of an announcer he goes to make a baseball field in his yard....
Buds first job besides working on his family’s dairy farm was working at a gas station. He was paid 90 cents an hour pumping gas. Bud got married at the age of 24. He met his wife at a church group. He has been married now for 38 years. Bud went to Alaska in August of 1969.
He finished his doctorate, started concentrating on identity. It is said that he was the first teacher to instruct a school level course on identity hypothesis, a course that today is required by about all undergrad brain science majors.
grew up manage a fast food restaurant in the 1960’s and in the early 1970’s he became a self-
Imagine your fate and future resting in the hands of one man’s judgment. This was actually reality for Shoeless Joe Jackson. Many argue that he was one of the best ever to play the game of baseball and was the greatest natural hitter of all-time. Yet, surprisingly, you will not find him among the familiar faces at the Hall of Fame. He was permanently banned from baseball, as well as seven others, for allegedly helping to throw the 1919 World Series.
After the war he returned to Smith College before moving to Cornell University in 1949. He retired in 1972 from Cornell University.
odd jobs and eventually made his way to California where he met his future wife,
first job as a writer. He was a reporter for the Kansas City Star. The Star
...ing lecturer and professor at Clearmont College. She is divorced from her husband Allen Shawn, whom she had two children with. Kincaid now resides in Vermont.
family in Lexington for two years before returning to Kilmichael. He took on farm work in Indianola in
practice of law. He was naturally talented in the new job and soon found himself very
In 1971 of January, he married Tabitha Spruce. They met in the Fogler Library at University of Maine at Orono. They were both students at the university. Since he could not be a teacher automatically, him and his wife, Tabitha, worked at an industrial laundry. He started his short story writing with Men’s Magazine. He sold his stories really well through this. In 1967, He sold many books including ‘The Glass Floor’. He finally became an English teacher at Hampden High School. After his mother’s death, he and Tabitha decided to go to Colorado. After 4 years of staying in Colorado, they went back to Maine.
Herbert did not immediately become a writer, but started work in journalism. He lied about his age to work for the Glendale Star in 1939. He put his writing career on hold and joined the United States navy during World War II. He married Flora Parkinson in 1941 and divorced in 1945. Herbert fathered one daughter from this marriage (Wikipedia).