This author created a character who remains silent
This author created a character who remains silent when asked by his father to choose between aesthetic blindness and moral blindness. That character created by this author is haunted by dreams of his "mythic ancestor" who killed and burned serfs in his drunken rages. This author created a character who impresses another man's father by knowing that the number for "prozdor" or "vestibule" is 503 and not 513. The title character of one of his novels returns to Europe after the (*) Ladover community rejects his Brooklyn Crucifixion. The protagonist befriends the boy whose line drive in a softball game injured his eye, and whose father speaks to him only when discussing religion in this author's most famous novel, which describes the relationship between Reuven Malter and the Hasidic Danny Saunders. For 10 points, name this American-Jewish author of My Name is Asher Lev and The Chosen.
This author created a character who remains silent when asked by his father to choose between aesthetic blindness and moral blindness.
Chaim Potok