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Chaim Potok

1929 - 2002

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Chaim Potok (February 17, 1929 – July 23, 2002) was an American author, novelist, playwright, editor and rabbi. Of the more than a dozen novels he authored, his first book The Chosen (1967) was listed on The New York Times Best Seller list for 39 weeks and sold more than 3.4 million copies, and was adapted into a well-received 1981 feature film by the same title. Potok was a member of the executive committee of the Writers and Artists for Peace in the Middle East, a pro-Israel group. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Chaim Potok is the 5,440th most popular writer (down from 4,811th in 2019), the 8,552nd most popular biography from United States (down from 6,623rd in 2019) and the 633rd most popular American Writer.

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Among writers, Chaim Potok ranks 5,440 out of 7,302. Before him are Lev Mei, Carine Roitfeld, Ingrid Noll, Álvares de Azevedo, Lucius Shepard, and Zośka Vieras. After him are Konstantin Vasilyevich Ivanov, William Cobbett, Robert Christgau, Rafael Cadenas, Jeanne Dumée, and Francis Carco.

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Among people born in 1929, Chaim Potok ranks 426. Before him are Igor Novikov, Saeed Jaffrey, Kiichirō Furukawa, Francisco Zuluaga, Jerry Hardin, and Win Tin. After him are Sergio Cervato, Alfredo Pérez, Girija Devi, Yevgeniy Chazov, Lucille Teasdale-Corti, and Gerald Dreyer. Among people deceased in 2002, Chaim Potok ranks 262. Before him are Yuji Hyakutake, Vernon A. Walters, John R. Pierce, Jan de Hartog, Peter Blau, and Hellmuth Marx. After him are Mikayil Abdullayev, Anatoli Bashashkin, David Todd Wilkinson, Mariya Smirnova, Ekrem Akurgal, and Mikhail Krug.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Chaim Potok ranks 8,554 out of 20,380. Before him are Kevin Gage (1959), Bob Bryar (1979), Ira Murchison (1933), Debra Hill (1950), Mel Ramos (1935), and William Mapother (1965). After him are Alfred Francis Russell (1817), Robert Rubin (1938), Warren Jeffs (1955), Jackson Scholz (1897), Robert Christgau (1942), and Virgil Thomson (1896).

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Among WRITERS In United States

Among writers born in United States, Chaim Potok ranks 633. Before him are Elmer Rice (1892), John Greenleaf Whittier (1807), Eve Ensler (1953), John Holt (1923), Robert Coover (1932), and Fran Lebowitz (1950). After him are Robert Christgau (1942), Alison Lurie (1926), Walter J. Ong (1912), Robert Bly (1926), Holly Black (1971), and Max Eastman (1883).

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