Ethan Nichtern

Ethan Nichtern is an American author and Buddhist teacher. His newest book is Confidence: Holding Your Seat Through Life's Eight Worldly Winds (2024, New World Library). 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 teaches and lectures around the world and is based in New York City.