![]() ![]() ![]() Ray Kinsella lives and farms in Iowa where he grows corn with his wife Annie and their five-year-old daughter Karin. ![]() Kinsella first developed the idea for the story while attending the Iowa Writers' Workshop, and decided to incorporate the stories he told about the Black Sox Scandal, imagining if Shoeless Joe Jackson came back to the same city Kinsella was living in, Iowa City. The novel was expanded from Kinsella's short story "Shoeless Joe Jackson Comes to Iowa", first published in his 1980 collection of the same name. Kinsella that was later adapted into the 1989 film Field of Dreams, which was nominated for three Academy Awards. Shoeless Joe is a 1982 magic realist novel by Canadian author W. ![]()
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