Earl Shorris (Chicago, 25 June 1936 – New York City, 27 May 2012) was an American writer and social critic.
The Clemente Course is an "educational institution founded in 1995 to teach the humanities at the college level to people living in economic distress.
"[2] It promotes employment, personal agency and social inclusion building up "ideas of hope, meaning, and identity into the personal" lives and narratives of participants.
Shorris made the acquaintance of Miguel León-Portilla, who published a widely-read anthology of accounts of the conquest of the Aztec Empire 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.