Alan Wilson Watts (1915-1973) was a naturalized American author and lecturer who interpreted Zen to the West. His writings were particularly popular among the so-called "beat generation" of the late 1950s and early 1960s. Alan Wilson Watts was born in...

While Alan Watts was really outside the Beat scene, any discussion of the Beat writers' interest in Zen Buddhism must take into account the part he played in popularizing Taoist and Buddhist thought in America. As an expounder of Eastern philosophy for...

English Buddhist now living in California, born 1915. Author of Spirit of Zen (1936). Editor of The Middle Way (q.v.), 1936–8, when left for U.S.A. Professor of Comparative Philosophy, American Academy of Asian Studies, 1951–57; Dean...

Alan Wilson Watts (January 6, 1915 – November 16, 1973) was a philosopher, writer, speaker, and expert in comparative religion. He was best known as an interpreter and popularizer of Asian philosophies for a Western audience. He wrote more than...