Scrabble Players by Nationality - American Scrabble Players, Australian Scrabble Players, Belgian Scrabble Players, British Scrabble Players (Paperback)

Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: American Scrabble Players, Australian Scrabble Players, Belgian Scrabble Players, British Scrabble Players, Canadian Scrabble Players, French Scrabble Players, Thai Scrabble Players, W. P. Kinsella, Roger Wright, Derryn Hinch, Paul Phillips, Joe Edley, Stefan Fatsis, Michel Duguet, Mark Nyman, Ben Wilson, Jim Kramer, Brian Cappelletto, Robert Felt, Antonin Michel, David Shulman, Stewart Holden, Joel Wapnick, Joel Sherman, Pakorn Nemitrmansuk, Herv Bohbot, Adam Logan, Sal Piro, Allan Simmons, Dave Wiegand, Panupol Sujjayakorn, Sam Kantimathi, Clive Spate, David Eldar, Christian Pierre, Darryl Francis, David Gibson, Helen Gipson, Robert Watson, David Boys, Matt Graham, Peter Morris. Excerpt: William Patrick Kinsella, OC, OBC (born May 25, 1935) is a Canadian novelist and short story writer who is well-known for his novel Shoeless Joe (1982), which was adapted into the movie Field of Dreams in 1989. His work has often concerned baseball, First Nations people, and other Canadian issues. William Patrick Kinsella was born to Irish American parents John Matthew Kinsella and Olive Kinsella in Edmonton, Alberta. Kinsella 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. "I'm one of these people who woke up at age five knowing how to read and write," he says. When he was ten, the family moved to Edmonton. As an adult, he held a variety of jobs in Edmonton, including as a clerk for the government of Alberta and managing a credit bureau. In 1967, he moved to Victoria, British Columbia, running a pizza restaurant called Caesar's Italian Village and driving a taxi. Though he had been writing since he was a child (winning a YMCA contest at age 1... More: http://booksllc.net/?id=284301