Earl Shorris, Date of Birth, Date of Death
TweetEarl Shorris
American writer
Date of Birth: 25-Jun-1936
Date of Death: 27-May-2012
Profession: writer
Nationality: United States
Zodiac Sign: Cancer 
About Earl Shorris
- Earl Shorris (Chicago, 25 June 1936 – New York City, 27 May 2012) was an American writer and social critic.
- He is best known for establishing the Clemente Course in the Humanities, named after baseball great and humanitarian Roberto Clemente.
- The Clemente Course is an "educational institution founded in 1995 to teach the humanities at the college level to people living in economic distress." He was critical of Western culture as "sliding towards plutocracy and materialism." Shorris published extensively on Mexico and Mexican history.
- Shorris made the acquaintance of Miguel León-Portilla, who published a widely-read anthology of accounts of the conquest of Mexico from Aztec viewpoints, The Broken Spears.
- The two subsequently published an important anthology of Mesoamerican literature, bringing to a mass market the existence of significant body of writings by indigenous Mexicans.
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