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Anne Morrow Lindbergh portraitAnne Morrow Lindbergh

Charting Apr 16, 1944Jan 27, 1963 · 33 weeks with chart power

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Peak Power
10.29%
week of Oct 7, 1962
Career Power
300
share-weeks
Crowns
0
weeks crowned Author of the Week
Peak Year
291
January 1962 – January 1963
Peak Five Years
291
January 1958 – January 1963
Top-five weeks
24
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
33
weeks with chart power
Dominance
12.64%
week of Aug 5, 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

2 books · 300 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
Dearly Beloved#232291.3
The Steep Ascent#518.3

At their peak

1962 in books

Anne Morrow Lindbergh's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from January 1962 to January 1963. The most powerful authors over those weeks:

  1. 1Katherine Anne Porter493
  2. 2J.D. Salinger369
  3. 3Irving Stone316
  4. 4Anne Morrow Lindbergh291
  5. 5Herman Wouk250
  6. 6Irving Wallace218
  7. 7Mary Renault197
  8. 8Allen Drury191
  9. 9William Faulkner165
  10. 10Taylor Caldwell165

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decades: the 1940s, the 1950s, the 1960s.