--- title: Ethan Hawke's 'Rules for a Knight' to Hit Bookstores This Fall description: The actor returns with his third book, with details revealed exclusively on TIME canonical: https://time.com/3756938/ethan-hawke-rules-for-a-knight/ author: Daniel D'Addario article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-03-24T20:19:07.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-02-22T05:24:25.555Z article:section: Entertainment og:title: Ethan Hawke Announces New Book 'Rules for a Knight' og:description: The actor returns with his third book, with details revealed exclusively on TIME og:url: https://time.com/3756938/ethan-hawke-rules-for-a-knight/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Ethan Hawke Announces New Book 'Rules for a Knight' twitter:description: The actor returns with his third book, with details revealed exclusively on TIME twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Ethan Hawke's _Rules for a Knight_ to Hit Bookstores This Fall  by [Daniel D'Addario](https://time.com/author/daniel-daddario/)  ## Daniel D'Addario Mar 24, 2015 8:19 PM UTC  by [Daniel D'Addario](https://time.com/author/daniel-daddario/)  ## Daniel D'Addario Mar 24, 2015 8:19 PM UTC Ethan Hawke, the author of two novels, is returning to bookshelves for the first time since 2002. _Rules for a_ _Knight_, due out this fall, will cap off a year that has included Hawke’s debut documentary (_Seymour: An Introduction_) and his fourth Oscar nomination (for _Boyhood_). Per Hawke’s publisher, Knopf—who shared details of the book exclusively with TIME—Hawke originally wrote _Knight_, a parable, as a gift to his four children. The publisher’s synopsis further reads: --- > “” --- In a recent [interview with TIME](http://time.com/3732146/ethan-hawke-seymour-boyhood-interview/), Hawke spoke about his evolution as an artist. “When I was young, I just had a tremendous amount of—joy is one word, hubris is another. I was just so excited to be a part of of anything creative,” he said. “‘I wrote 10 pages. Look! You should read it.’ And now as you get older, you’re like, ‘Okay, wait. There’s a lot of things you should read before I’ll waste your time with \[my work\].'” That concern has evidently been overcome with a story that’s intended to speak to young people, and that’s explicitly intended as advice: Hawke’s publisher compares the book to Ralph Waldo Emerson’s “Self-Reliance” and Anne Morrow Lindbergh’s _Gift From the Sea_. Like his character in _Boyhood_, Hawke, writing for his kids, is growing up. After all, as the book instructs its reader: “A great knight uses his power to empower others.” ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3756938/ethan-hawke-rules-for-a-knight/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3756938/ethan-hawke-rules-for-a-knight/"},"headline":"Ethan Hawke's Rules for a Knight to Hit Bookstores This Fall","datePublished":"2015-03-24T20:19:07.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-22T05:24:25.555Z","description":"The actor returns with his third book, with details revealed exclusively on TIME","url":"https://time.com/3756938/ethan-hawke-rules-for-a-knight/","keywords":["Books","ethan hawke","Boyhood"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Daniel D'Addario","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/daniel-daddario/"}],"articleSection":"Entertainment","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/entertainment/","name":"Entertainment"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/books/","name":"Books"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3756938/ethan-hawke-rules-for-a-knight/","name":"Ethan Hawke's Rules for a Knight to Hit Bookstores This Fall"}}]}] ```