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Andre Schwarz-Bart portraitAndre Schwarz-Bart

Charting Nov 20, 1960 → Sep 17, 1961 · 44 weeks with chart power

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Author of the Week

  • NYT Hardcover Fiction

    4 crowns

    19601961

    Longest reign 4 weeks (Mar–Apr 1961) · First crown Mar 1961

Peak Power
11.51%
week of May 14, 1961
Career Power
373
share-weeks
Crowns
4
weeks crowned Author of the Week
Peak Year
373
September 1960 – September 1961
Peak Five Years
373
September 1956 – September 1961
Top-five weeks
27
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
44
weeks with chart power
Dominance
14.53%
week of Mar 26, 1961
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 · 373 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
The Last of the Just#144373.3

At their peak

1960 in books →

Andre Schwarz-Bart's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from September 1960 to September 1961. The most powerful authors over those weeks:

  1. 1Harper Lee549
  2. 2James A. Michener537
  3. 3Allen Drury423
  4. 4Andre Schwarz-Bart373
  5. 5Irving Stone339
  6. 6Graham Greene191
  7. 7Elizabeth Goudge166
  8. 8Guiseppe di Lampedusa148
  9. 9Mary Ellen Chase146
  10. 10Leon Uris145

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decade: the 1960s.