For ten points, what American novelist wrote The Chosen, The Promise, and My Name Is Asher Lev?
He often addressed the rivalries between worldly and sacred needs, and his experiences as a chaplain in the Korean War inspired the novels The Book of Lights and I Am the Clay, while The Gates of November, about a family symbolic of Soviet Jewry, was one of his few works not set in Brooklyn or the Bronx. His most famous protagonist is exiled to Paris by his father's Hasidic sect after painting Brooklyn Crucifixion I and II. For ten points, what American novelist wrote The Chosen, The Promise, and My Name Is Asher Lev?
He often addressed the rivalries between worldly and sacred needs, and his experiences as a chaplain in the Korean War inspired the novels The Book of Lights and I Am the Clay, while The Gates of November, about a family symbolic of Soviet Jewry, was one of his few works not set in Brooklyn or the Bronx.
Chaim {Potok}