Richard Kinsella, Identical twin brother of Ray. Karin Kinsella, 5-year-old daughter of Ray and Annie. Ray Kinsella, protagonist and devoted baseball fan. Salinger, as part of a journey the Philadelphia Inquirer called "not so much about baseball as it's about dreams, magic, life, and what is quintessentially American." Soon, Kinsella is off on a cross-country trip to ease the pain of another hero, the reclusive writer J.D. The field becomes a conduit to the spirits of baseball legends. When he hears a voice telling him to build a baseball field in the midst of his corn crop in order to give his hero a chance at redemption, he blindly follows instructions. Kinsella is obsessed with the beauty and history of American baseball, specifically the plight of his hero, Shoeless Joe Jackson, and the Black Sox Scandal of the 1919 World Series. 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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