David Chadwick (writer)

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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.

• Chadwick, David (1994). Thank You and OK!: An American Zen Failure in Japan. Republished by Shambhala Publications (2007). ISBN 1-59030-470-5. Originally Penguin Arkana.
• Chadwick, David (1999). Crooked Cucumber: the Life and Zen Teaching of Shunryu Suzuki. Broadway Books. ISBN 0-7679-0104-5. Ebook, audiobook, Shambhala Publications
• Chadwick, David (2007). Zen Is Right Here: Teaching Stories and Anecdotes of Shunryu Suzuki, Author of Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind Shambhala Publications (2007) ISBN 1-59030-491-8. audiobook. Originally To Shine One Corner of the World: Moments with Shunryu Suzuki. (2001) Broadway Books
• Chadwick, David (2019). To Find the Girl from Perth. Cuke Press. Originally (2008) Speir Publishing
• Chadwick, David (2019) (text), Atkeison, Andrew (illustrations). Color Dreams for To Find the Girl from Perth. Cuke Press. Originally (2009) Speir Publishing
• Chadwick, David (2019) The, the Book. Cuke Press. ISBN 978-1732287754 Originally Chadwick, Chavid (2011). The. Speir Publishing
• Chadwick, David (2011). Afterword to Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind 40th Anniversary Issue. Shambhala Publications. ISBN 978-1590308493
• Chadwick, David (2020) Afterword to Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind 50th Anniversary Issue. Shambhala Publications. ISBN 978-1611808414
• Chadwick, David (2018) Forward, Editor. A Brief History of Tassajara: From Native American Sweat Lodges to Pioneering Zen Monastery. Cuke Press
• Shunryu, Suzuki; Chadwick, David (editor) (2021). Zen Is Right Now: More Teaching Stories and Anecdotes of Shunryu Suzuki. Shambhala Publications. ISBN 978-1611809145

• Official website
• ZMBM dot net - Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind site
• Defuser Music dot com - DC's songs
• Hub for DC nonZense URLs such as the one below
• (To Find the) Girl From Perth dot com - DC's illustrated novel with songs