Background
Patil was born in 1926 in Pattan-Kodoli in Kolhapur District.
Patil was born in 1926 in Pattan-Kodoli in Kolhapur District.
He attended high school in Gadhinglaj and college in Kolhapur to earn his Bachelor of Arts and B.T. degrees.
Patil presided over Marathi Sahitya Sammelan at Nanded in 1985. Shankar Patil"s short story Meeting was adapted by Doctor Priyadarshan Manohar as a short play named Meeting. On May 2nd 2015, Kansas based The Big Bang Theater performed the play at Regnier Hall Auditorium at KU Edwards Campus.
The play was directed by Doctor Udayan Apte.
He served for some time as a member of Maharashtra state government"s committee on high school textbooks and curricula research.