David Chadwick

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David Chadwick (born 1945) grew up in Texas and moved to California to study Zen as a student of Shunryu Suzuki in 1966. Chadwick was ordained as a Buddhist priest in 1971, shortly before Suzuki's death. He assisted in the operation of the San Francisco Zen Center for a number of years.

Chadwick has two children and has married and remarried. He has written several books and continues to "dabble in Buddhism and related matters"[1]. Among his works is Crooked Cucumber, the biography of Shunryu Suzuki.

David Chadwick (born 1977) grew up in New York

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Chadwick, David (1994). Thank You And OK!: An American Zen Failure in Japan. Arkana. ISBN 0-14-019457-6.
Chadwick, David (1999). Crooked Cucumber: the Life and Zen Teaching of Shunryu Suzuki. Broadway Books. ISBN 0-7679-0104-5.
Chadwick, David (2001). To Shine One Corner of the World: Moments with Shunryu Suzuki. Broadway Books. ISBN 0-7679-0651-9.