Shoeless Joe (novel)

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Shoeless Joe

First edition
Author	W.P. Kinsella
Language	English
Genre	Sport Fantasy
Publisher	Houghton Mifflin
Publication date	1982
Publication place	Canada
Media type	Print (hardcover, paperback, e-book)
Pages	265 (paperback edition)
ISBN	0-395-32047-X
OCLC	7947139
Dewey Decimal	813/.54 19
LC Class	PR9199.3.K443 S49 1982

Shoeless Joe is a 1982 magic realist novel by Canadian author W. P. Kinsella that was later adapted into the 1989 film Field of Dreams, which was nominated for three Academy Awards.

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 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.^[1]