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 philosophyOver 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 YoutubeIncludes correspondence with Joseph Campbell, Henry Miller, Gary Snyder, parents, wives, lovers, editors, and colleaguesIncludes commentary from Alan Watts's two eldest daughtersWatts kept carbon copies of most of his typed correspondence