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Bel Kaufman portraitBel Kaufman

Charting Mar 14, 1965May 22, 1966 · 61 weeks with chart power

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Author of the Year

Author of the Week

  • NYT Hardcover Fiction

    8 crowns

    19651966

    Longest reign 8 weeks (May–Jul 1965) · First crown May 1965

Peak Power
12.45%
week of Nov 28, 1965
Career Power
658
share-weeks
Crowns
8
weeks crowned Author of the Week
Peak Year
611
March 1965 – March 1966
Peak Five Years
658
May 1961 – May 1966
Top-five weeks
47
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
61
weeks with chart power
Dominance
14.53%
week of May 16, 1965
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 · 658 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
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At their peak

1965 in books

Bel Kaufman's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from March 1965 to March 1966. The most powerful authors over those weeks:

  1. 1Bel Kaufman611
  2. 2James Michener567
  3. 3Arthur Hailey400
  4. 4Irving Stone242
  5. 5Robin Moore230
  6. 6Saul Bellow221
  7. 7Mary Stewart195
  8. 8Morris West190
  9. 9Herman Wouk179
  10. 10Len Deighton156

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decade: the 1960s.