Ethan Nichtern

Ethan Nichtern is a Buddhist teacher, and the author of The Road Home: A Contemporary Exploration of the Buddhist Path (Farrar, Straus and Giroux - North Point, 2015). The Road Home was selected as one of Library Journal's Best Books of 2015,[1] and was named as one of 9 Books That Define 2015 by Tech Insider.[2] His next book for Farrar, Straus and Giroux, The Dharma of The Princess Bride was released in September 2017.

Nichtern is also the author of One City: A Declaration of Interdependence (Wisdom Publications 2007) as well as various poetry and fiction. He is also the founder of the Interdependence Project, a nonprofit organization dedicated to secular Buddhist study as it applies to activism, arts and media projects, and Western psychology. Nichtern has taught meditation and Buddhist psychology classes and retreats across North America since 2002. He is based in New York City.

Nichtern has discussed the relevance of Buddhism in the 21st century on ABC/Yahoo News, CNN with Rick Sanchez, NPR's Tell Me More with Michel Martin, Dan Harris of ABC News, Vogue.com with Sally Singer, in the New York Times[3] and other news outlets.

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. On June 18, 2016 he married Marissa Dutton, covered in the Vows section of the New York Times on July 10, 2016.[4]

References
  1. http://reviews.libraryjournal.com/2015/11/best-of/best-core-nonfic/best-books-2015-core-nonfiction/
  2. "9 books that defined 2015".
  3. "A Father and Son Embrace Meditation". 2015-06-18.
  4. https://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/10/fashion/weddings/ethan-nichtern-and-marissa-dutton-meditations-on-the-cool-boredom-of-love.html/
  • Overcoming Spiritual Bypassing, a Dharma Talk for Tricycle: The Buddhist Review (May 2015)
  • Library Journal Reviews[1]
  • Tech Insider, December 4, 2015[2]
  • Yahoo News/ABC interview "If It's Easy, You're Cheating" with Sara Haines May, 2014[3]
  • Vogue.com "How To Meditate" by Sally Singer February, 2014[4]
  • Publishers Weekly, July, 2013[5]
  • NPR's Tell Me More with Michel Martin January, 2010[6]
  • CNN Interview by Rick Sanchez January, 2010[7]
  • New York Times by Eric V Copage[8]
  1. Arul B.Louis (11 November 2015). "Best Books 2015: Core Nonfiction". Library Journal. Retrieved 6 October 2016.
  2. Drake Baer (4 December 2015). "9 books that defined 2015". TECH Insider. Retrieved 6 October 2016.
  3. "If It's Easy, You're Cheating". Yahoo. Retrieved 1 June 2016.
  4. "How to Meditate 2.0: Vogue's Sally Singer Commits to Ten Minutes of Daily Silence". 1 April 2014. Retrieved 6 October 2016.
  5. "Book Deals: Week of July 15, 2013". publishersweekly.com.
  6. "Brit Hume to Tiger Woods: Drop Buddha, Try Jesus".
  7. http://cnn.com/video/?/video/us/2010/01/06/nr.sanchez.buddhism.cnn. Missing or empty |title= (help)
  8. http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/06/18/a-father-and-son-embrace-meditation/. Missing or empty |title= (help)
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