Author

Books by Alan Watts

Alan Watts (1915–1973) was a British-born philosopher, writer, and speaker who spent the second half of his career in California interpreting Asian philosophical and religious traditions for Western audiences. He studied theology at Seabury-Western Theological Seminary and was briefly ordained as an Episcopalian priest before leaving institutional religion. His more than 25 books include The Way of Zen, Psychotherapy East and West, and The Wisdom of Insecurity. He became a major influence on the American counterculture of the 1960s and remains widely read and listened to through recordings of his lectures.