Chaim Potok

Chaim Potok (1929-2002) is the author of nine novels, including The Chosen, My Name is Asher Lev, Davita’s Harp, and I Am the Clay. He also wrote fiction for young adults (Zebra and Other Stories), children’s books (The Tree of Hereand The Sky of Now), a collection of novellas (Old Men at Midnight), biographies of Isaac Stern and Vladimir Slepak, and Wanderings: Chaim Potok’s History of the Jews, along with numerous essays and short stories. An ordained rabbi, he served as a U.S. Army chaplain in Korea. The Collected Plays of Chaim Potok is the first volume of his plays to be published.