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Author whose first novel, Shoeless Joe was adapted into the movie Field of Dreams. Many of Kinsella's other works also concerned baseball, although none became as popular. Kinsella, a Canadian, died as a result of a doctor-assisted suicide that has now been legalized recently in Canada.

Age 81.

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