Kinsella is a novelist and writer of baseball fiction. His work includes the bestselling book Shoeless Joe on which the 1989 motion picture Field of Dreams is based.
He is reported to be a member of American Atheists by the British Columbia Humanist Association.
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Kinsella is profiled in the 1996 book Brave Souls: Writers and Artists Wrestle with God, Love, Death and the Things that Matter (Stoddart of Toronto) By Douglas Todd.