{"name": "Chaim Potok", "remote_ids": {"viaf": "51694687", "wikidata": "Q560735", "isni": "0000000117629380", "bookbrainz": "ee10e7d5-4c61-442d-8fa8-97c949603ac6", "goodreads": "7385", "imdb": "nm0693160", "lc_naf": "n50019835", "librarything": "potokchaim", "opac_sbn": "CFIV003623", "gnd": "122379136"}, "personal_name": "Chaim Potok", "death_date": "2002-07-23", "birth_date": "1929-02-17", "key": "/authors/OL217374A", "photos": [14579257, 14579263], "alternate_names": ["C. Potok"], "bio": "Chaim Potok (February 17, 1929 \u2013 July 23, 2002) was an American author, novelist, playwright, editor and rabbi. Of the more than dozen novels he authored, his first book The Chosen (1967), was listed on The New York Times\u2019 bestseller list for 39 weeks and sold more than 3,400,000 copies and which was adapted into a well-received 1981 feature film by the same title.", "type": {"key": "/type/author"}, "latest_revision": 10, "revision": 10, "created": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2008-04-01T03:28:50.625462"}, "last_modified": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2025-10-20T18:43:20.062457"}}