Ethan Nichtern

Ethan Nichtern is an American author and Buddhist teacher. His book The Road Home: A Contemporary Exploration of the Buddhist Path (Farrar, Straus and Giroux - North Point, 2015), which was selected as one of Best Books of 2015 by Library Journal, and as one of 9 Books That Define 2015 by Tech Insider. His other books include The Dharma of The Princess Bride (Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2017) and One City: A Declaration of Interdependence (Wisdom Publications 2007). He is also the founder of the Interdependence Project, a nonprofit organization for secular Buddhist study as it applies to activism, arts and media projects, and Western psychology. He is based in New York City.

Nichtern has discussed the relevance of Buddhism in the 21st century on ABC/Yahoo News, CNN, NPR ABC News, Vogue.com, and The New York Times.

Nichtern is the son of musician/composer David Nichtern, who is also a Buddhist teacher, and Janice Ragland, a painter who later became a psychotherapist. He was born in Los Angeles, California in 1978 and raised in New York City. In 2016, he married Marissa Dutton and the two separated and later divorced in 2021.