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.
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| Born | 1979 (age 44–45) Los Angeles, California, United States |
| Parents | David Nichtern (father) Janice Ragland (mother) |
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.