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Armistead Maupin portraitArmistead Maupin

Charting Nov 12, 1989Feb 23, 2014 · 4 weeks with chart power

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Peak Power
1.06%
week of Feb 23, 2014
Career Power
13
share-weeks
Crowns
0
weeks crowned Author of the Week
Peak Year
11
March 2013 – February 2014
Peak Five Years
11
March 2009 – February 2014
Top-five weeks
0
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
4
weeks with chart power
Dominance
6.37%
week of Feb 9, 2014
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 · 13 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 Days of Anna Madrigal#7311.4
Sure of You#1512.1

At their peak

2013 in books

Armistead Maupin's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from March 2013 to February 2014. The most powerful authors over those weeks:

  1. 1Dan Brown266
  2. 2Gillian Flynn250
  3. 3James Patterson237
  4. 4John Grisham196
  5. 5Khaled Hosseini192
  6. 6Donna Tartt174
  7. 7Stephen King160
  8. 8Robert Galbraith127
  9. 9Mitch Albom124
  10. 10Nicholas Sparks119

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decades: the 1980s, the 1990s, the 2000s, the 2010s.