FAQ About Alan Watts

Alan Watts was born in Chislehurst, England, but he spent much of his professional life in the United States. He moved to the U.S. in 1938 to pursue a career in theology and philosophy, initially living in New York. Later, he became an Episcopal priest in Evanston, Illinois. Eventually, he moved to California, where he became a lecturer and teacher, notably at the Academy of Asian Studies in San Francisco. Watts continued to live and work in California until his death in 1973, spending part of his later life in a cabin on a houseboat in Sausalito, where he wrote and recorded many of his works.