Remembering W. P. Kinsella, Edward Albee, Charmian Carr, Prince Buster

W.P. Kinsella was the author of among other works, Shoeless Joe (1982), later made into the well-known motion picture Field of Dreams (1989). Edward Albee was the preeminent American playwright who wrote Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf (1962), which was adapted into a movie of the same name starring Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton. Charmian Carr was the young actress who played Liesl von Trapp in the 1965 classic The Sound of Music. Prince Buster was the Jamaican musician who helped pioneer “ska” music, a unique sound coming from the West Indies that was a forerunner of reggae music.