VANCOUVER, British Columbia – Canadian novelist W.P. Kinsella, who blended magical realism and baseball in the book that became the smash hit film “Field of Dreams,” has died. He was 81.

VANCOUVER, British Columbia – Canadian novelist W.P. Kinsella, who blended magical realism and baseball in the book that became the smash hit film “Field of Dreams,” has died. He was 81.

VANCOUVER, British Columbia -- Canadian novelist W.P. Kinsella, who blended magical realism and baseball in the book that became the smash-hit film "Field of Dreams," has died. He was 81.

Canadian author W.P. Kinsella, whose novel “Shoeless Joe” inspired the hit film “Field of Dreams,” has died, according to his agent. He was 81 years old. “He was a unique, creative and ...

W.P. Kinsella, the Canadian novelist whose writing about baseball was the basis for the 1989 film “Field of Dreams,” died Friday at 81 with the help of a doctor acting under Canada’s new ...

W.P. Kinsella, author of "Shoeless Joe," which became "Field of Dreams," which has become an enduring piece of baseball lore, ended his life Friday at age 81 in British Columbia. Maybe his spirit ...

W.P. (Bill) Kinsella, author of the novel that was adapted for the iconic movie “Field of Dreams,” died Friday at age 81, according to a press release from his literary agency. Kinsella was ...

Quick. Finish the next sentence. “If you build it …” Yes, it’s a gimme. The rest of the sentence reads “… he will come.” The line appears in the third paragraph of “Shoeless Joe ...

“Field of Dreams” star Gaby Hoffmann ... The movie was based on the 1982 novel “Shoeless Joe” by W. P. Kinsella. The late Ray Liotta starred as Shoeless Joe Jackson.