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http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/wp-kinsella-assisted-death-1.3766840
B.C. author W.P. Kinsella ends his own life under assisted-dying legislation
Writer of Shoeless Joe, adapted into the movie Field of Dreams, dead at 81
W.P. Kinsella, the B.C.-based author of Shoeless Joe, the award-winning novel that became the film Field of Dreams, has died at 81. His literary agency confirms the writer had a doctor-assisted death on Friday in Hope, B.C. The agency did not provide details about Kinsella's health.
Kinsella published almost 30 books of fiction, non-fiction and poetry, and was a winner of the Order of Canada and the Order of British Columbia. His 1982 magic-realist novel Shoeless Joe, about a farmer who hears a voice telling him to build a baseball field, was adapted into the popular Kevin Costner film Field of Dreams.
Kinsella was born in Edmonton in 1935. He began writing very early in life, winning a YMCA contest at the age of 14. He took writing courses at the University of Victoria and earned a bachelor of arts in creative writing in 1974 and went on to complete a master of fine arts in English through the Iowa Writers' Workshop at the University of Iowa. Before becoming a professional author, Kinsella was a professor of English at the University of Calgary.
He is survived by his two daughters, who the agency said cared for him in his final years, and several grandchildren.
B.C. author W.P. Kinsella ends his own life under assisted-dying legislation
Writer of Shoeless Joe, adapted into the movie Field of Dreams, dead at 81
W.P. Kinsella, the B.C.-based author of Shoeless Joe, the award-winning novel that became the film Field of Dreams, has died at 81. His literary agency confirms the writer had a doctor-assisted death on Friday in Hope, B.C. The agency did not provide details about Kinsella's health.
Kinsella published almost 30 books of fiction, non-fiction and poetry, and was a winner of the Order of Canada and the Order of British Columbia. His 1982 magic-realist novel Shoeless Joe, about a farmer who hears a voice telling him to build a baseball field, was adapted into the popular Kevin Costner film Field of Dreams.
Kinsella was born in Edmonton in 1935. He began writing very early in life, winning a YMCA contest at the age of 14. He took writing courses at the University of Victoria and earned a bachelor of arts in creative writing in 1974 and went on to complete a master of fine arts in English through the Iowa Writers' Workshop at the University of Iowa. Before becoming a professional author, Kinsella was a professor of English at the University of Calgary.
He is survived by his two daughters, who the agency said cared for him in his final years, and several grandchildren.
