Chaim Potok

Chaim Potok was an American novelist, playwright, editor and rabbi who wrote more than a dozen books. Potok's first novel, The Chosen (1967), spent 39 weeks on The New York Times best-seller list and was adapted into a 1981 feature film of the same title. The novel My Name Is Asher Lev, the first book in the Asher Lev series, is a coming-of-age story about a young artist raised in a Hasidic community.