Best sellers

She wrote more than 20 best-selling novels over several decades.

His books often focused on crime in the horse-racing world.

He was a Yale classics professor and screenplay writer when he turned a proposed movie about two college students — preppy Oliver and smart-mouthed Jenny — into a novel.

Confronted with incurable cancer, he devised a last lecture that became an Internet sensation.

“The Chosen,” published in 1967, was Potok’s first and best-known novel.