Was the movie Field of Dreams based upon any novel or short story?”
From Wikipedia: Field of Dreams is a 1989 American fantasy/drama film, directed and adapted by Phil Alden Robinson from the novel Shoeless Joe by W. P. Kinsella. The movie stars Kevin Costner, Amy Madigan, Gaby Hoffmann, Ray Liotta, Timothy Busfield, James Earl Jones, Frank Whaley, and Burt Lancaster in his last film appearance. Field of Dreams was nominated for Academy Awards for Best Music, Original Score, Best Picture and Best Writing, Screenplay Based on Material from Another Medium. The character played by Burt Lancaster and Frank Whaley, Archibald “Moonlight” Graham, is based on a real baseball player of the same name. The character is largely true to life, excepting a few factual liberties taken for artistic reasons. The DVD special points out that the facts, mentioned by various citizens interviewed by the Terence Mann character, were taken from articles written about the real Dr. Graham. The author Terence Mann (James Earl Jones) is fictional but inspired by the life of reclus
