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Bart Spicer

Charting Sep 2, 1962Dec 23, 1962 · 16 weeks with chart power

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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.

TitlePeakWeeksPower
Act of Anger#91658.7

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:

  1. 1Katherine Anne Porter462
  2. 2J.D. Salinger442
  3. 3Irving Stone379
  4. 4Anne Morrow Lindbergh266
  5. 5Herman Wouk250
  6. 6Irving Wallace200
  7. 7Mary Renault197
  8. 8Harper Lee195
  9. 9Taylor Caldwell194
  10. 10William Faulkner164

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decade: the 1960s.