Shoeless Joe (novel)

Shoeless Joe (novel)

Shoeless Joe is a magic realist novel by W. P. Kinsella. It became much better known because of its film adaptation, Field of Dreams. The book was written as Kinsella attended a writers workshop in Iowa, and decided to incorporate the stories he told about about the Black Sox Scandal, imagining if Shoeless Joe Jackson came back to the same city Kinsella was living, Iowa City.