The Collected Letters of Alan Watts

Traces the arc of Watts's extraordinary life and career, from a British boarding-school student - one of two train-bearers at the Archbishop of Cantebury's enthronement in 1928 - to a West-coast counterculture hero and preeminent interpreter of Eastern philosophy. Over forty years since his death, Alan Watts's writings and lectures are more popular, worldwide, than ever thanks to social media and viral kinetic typography videos on Youtube. Includes correspondence with Joseph Campbell, Henry Miller, Gary Snyder, parents, wives, lovers, editors, and colleagues. Includes commentary from Alan Watts's two eldest daughters. Watts kept carbon copies of most of his typed correspondence.