In My Own Way: An Autobiography

By Alan Watts

Watts tells his own story, from a conservative religious childhood in rural Kent to Episcopal priesthood and then to life as a freewheeling teacher at the centre of the American counterculture. Along the way he sketches vivid portraits of Joseph Campbell, Carl Jung, D.T. Suzuki and Gary Snyder. Candid about his appetites and contradictions, it is warm, funny and entirely without self-pity.