W.P. Kinsella

William Patrick Kinsella was born on 25 May 1935 in Edmonton and grew up near Darwell, Alberta. Home-schooled until the age of 10, he received a B.A. in creative writing from the University of Victoria in 1974 and an M.F.A. from the University of Iowa in 1978. He taught creative writing at the University of Alberta from 1978 to 1983 before becoming a full-time writer. On 11 October 1997, while out walking, Kinsella suffered a head injury when he was struck by a vehicle. The resulting loss of concentration has left him unable to write. Kinsella lives in British Columbia.

Books by W.P. Kinsella

	1977 Dance Me Outside (short stories)
	1978 Scars (short stories)
	1980 Shoeless Joe Jackson Comes to Iowa (short stories)
	1981 Born Indian (short stories)
	1982 Shoeless Joe (novel)
	1983 The Moccasin Telegraph and Other Stories (short stories)
	1984 The Thrill of the Grass (short stories)
	1985 The Alligator Report (short stories)
	1986 The Iowa Baseball Confederacy (novel)
	1986 The Fencepost Chronicles (short stories)
	1985 Five Stories (short stories)
	1987 Red Wolf, Red Wolf (short stories)
	1988 The Further Adventures of Slugger McBatt (novel, also published as Go the Distance)
	1989 The Miss Hobbema Pageant (short stories)
	1989 The Rainbow Warehouse (poetry, with Ann Knight)
	1990 Two Spirits Soar: The Art of Allen Sapp, the Inspiration of Allan Gonor (nonfiction)
	1991 Box Socials (novel)
	1993 The Dixon Cornbelt League and Other Baseball Stories (short stories)
	1994 Even At This Distance (poetry, with Ann Knight)
	1994 Brother Frank's Gospel Hour (short stories)
	1995 The Winter Helen Dropped By (novel)
	1996 If Wishes Were Horses (novel)
	1998 Magic Time (novel)
	1998 The Secret of the Northern Lights (short stories)
	2000 Japanese Baseball and Other Stories (short stories)
	2002 Ichiro Dreams: Ichiro Suzuki and the Seattle Mariners (nonfiction, Japanese only)
	2004 The W.P. Kinsella Omnibus (includes The Fencepost Chronicles, The Miss Hobbema Pageant, and Brother Frank's Gospel Hour)
	2011 Butterfly Winter

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