# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/chaim-potok
# Generated: 2026-08-13T10:22:40.344Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/chaim-potok"
name: "Chaim Potok"
slug: "chaim-potok"
description: "Chaim Potok, was an American author, novelist, playwright, editor and rabbi. Among the more than a dozen books he authored, his first novel The Chosen (1967) was listed on The New York Times Best Seller list for 39 weeks and sold more than 3.4 million copies as of 2002, and was adapted into a well-received 1981 feature film by the same title."
tagline: "American rabbi and author (1929–2002)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Chaim_Potok.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1929-02-17"
deathDate: "2002-07-23"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           50.83
  momentum:             0
  historical:           16.134676
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0693160/"
    handle:    "nm0693160"
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    title: "Chaim Potok"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Chaim Potok"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump