Before becoming a professional author, he was a professor of English at the University of Calgary.Īccording to the Canadian Encyclopedia, Kinsella's literary output primarily consists of two cycles of work dealing with two fictional universes: those dealing with baseball and those depicting the indigenous people of Canada. He earned a Master of Fine Arts in English at the Iowa Writers' Workshop at the University of Iowa in 1978. In 1967, he moved to Victoria, British Columbia, running a pizza restaurant called Caesar's Italian Village and driving a taxi.Īlthough he had been writing since he was a child (winning a YMCA contest at age 14), he began taking writing courses at the University of Victoria in 1970, receiving a Bachelor of Arts in creative writing there in 1974. Īs an adult, he held a variety of jobs in Edmonton, including as a clerk for the government of Alberta and managing a credit bureau. He also worked in the school library his senior year. Kinsella's literary education in his formative years came from reading and by attending all the plays at high school and any theatrical productions that made it to Edmonton.

Barrie play was the total literature of my high school years.' Kinsella was barely exposed to literature in school, saying in a 2010 interview, 'One Shakespeare play and one J. He did not go to school until grade five, attended Parkdale School for junior high, and did not attend university until he was in his mid-30s. When he was ten years old, the family moved to Edmonton. 'I'm one of these people who woke up at age five knowing how to read and write,' he says. He was raised until he was 10 years old at a homestead near Darwell, Alberta, 60 km west of the city, home-schooled by his mother and taking correspondence courses. William Patrick Kinsella was born in Edmonton, Alberta, the son of Irish Canadian parents, Olive Mary (née Elliott/Elliot), a printer, and John Matthew Kinsella, a contractor.

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