Authors · NYT Hardcover Fiction
Bart Spicer
Charting Sep 2, 1962 → Dec 23, 1962 · 16 weeks with chart power
- Peak Power
- 2.97%
- week of Dec 9, 1962
- Career Power
- 59
- share-weeks
- Crowns
- 0
- weeks crowned Author of the Week
- Peak Year
- 59
- December 1961 – December 1962
- Peak Five Years
- 59
- December 1957 – December 1962
- Top-five weeks
- 0
- weeks ranked 1–5
- Longevity
- 16
- weeks with chart power
- Dominance
- 4.79%
- week of Sep 30, 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 · 59 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.
| Title | Peak | Weeks | On chart | Power contributedPower | Book Power |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Act of Anger | #9 | 16 | 58.7 |
At their peak
1961 in books →Bart Spicer's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from December 1961 to December 1962. The most powerful authors over those weeks:
- 1Katherine Anne Porter462
- 2J.D. Salinger442
- 3Irving Stone379
- 4Anne Morrow Lindbergh266
- 5Herman Wouk250
- 6Irving Wallace200
- 7Mary Renault197
- 8Harper Lee195
- 9Taylor Caldwell194
- 10William Faulkner164
Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.
Their decade: the 1960s.