W.P. Kinsella is a Canadian author known for his baseball novels and stories about First Nations people. He wrote the novel Shoeless Joe in 1982, which tells the story of a farmer who builds a baseball field in his cornfield and is visited by the ghosts of Shoeless Joe Jackson and other members of the disgraced 1919 Chicago White Sox team. The novel was adapted into the popular 1989 film Field of Dreams. Kinsella also incorporated the famous reclusive author J.D. Salinger as a character into Shoeless Joe, who comes to the baseball field seeking redemption. While Salinger was reportedly offended by his fictional portrayal, the novel helped establish Kinsella as a renowned magic