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Al Dewlen

Charting Feb 11, 1962Apr 8, 1962 · 9 weeks with chart power

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Peak Power
1.58%
week of Apr 8, 1962
Career Power
22
share-weeks
Crowns
0
weeks crowned Author of the Week
Peak Year
22
April 1961 – April 1962
Peak Five Years
22
April 1957 – April 1962
Top-five weeks
0
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
9
weeks with chart power
Dominance
3.16%
week of Mar 11, 1962
Comebacks
0
none detected

Ranked by weekly Power Share, part of the ChartReign Power model — not the list's own positions. How it works →

Exponentially smoothed share of the week's total power (the primary metric).

Titles on the NYT Hardcover Fiction

1 book · 22 share-weeks of Career Power

Power contributed is what each book earned this author: their weekly Power Share, split across their books (a featured credit takes its reduced share). Book Power is the book's own figure, the same for every author on it. Bar length compares books within this list.

TitlePeakWeeksPower
Twilight of Honor#12922.3

At their peak

1961 in books

Al Dewlen's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from April 1961 to April 1962. The most powerful authors over those weeks:

  1. 1Irving Stone702
  2. 2Harper Lee575
  3. 3J.D. Salinger395
  4. 4Harold Robbins265
  5. 5Leon Uris251
  6. 6Edwin O'Connor192
  7. 7Andre Schwarz-Bart181
  8. 8Henry Miller146
  9. 9Taylor Caldwell146
  10. 10Edward Streeter145

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decade: the 1960s.