Escaping Watts, Allan
Alan Watts Alan Wilson Watts (6 January 1915 – 16 November 1973) was a British writer and speaker known for interpreting and popularising Buddhism , Taoism , and Hinduism for a Western audience. Born in Chislehurst , England, he moved to the United States in 1938 and began Zen training in New York. He received a master's degree in theology from Seabury-Western Theological Seminary and became an Episcopal priest in 1945. He left the ministry in 1950 and moved to California , where he joined the faculty of the American Academy of Asian Studies . [2] Alan Watts Born Alan Wilson Watts 6 January 1915 Chislehurst , London, England Died 16 November 1973 (aged 58) Mount Tamalpais , California , US Nationality British Alma mater Seabury-Western Theological Seminary Notable work The Way of Zen (1957) Tao: The Watercourse Way (1975) Spouse(s) Eleanor Everett ( m. 1938; div. 1949) Dorothy DeWitt ( m. 1950; div. 1963) Mary Jane Yates King ( m. 1964) Era 20th-cent