Authors · NYT Hardcover Fiction
Bel Kaufman
Charting Mar 14, 1965 → May 22, 1966 · 61 weeks with chart power
Honours
- Author of the Year
Author of the Week
NYT Hardcover Fiction
8 crowns
19651966Longest 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 →
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.
| Title | Peak | Weeks | On chart | Power contributedPower | Book Power |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Up the Down Staircase | #1 | 61 | 658.3 |
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:
- 1Bel Kaufman611
- 2James Michener567
- 3Arthur Hailey400
- 4Irving Stone242
- 5Robin Moore230
- 6Saul Bellow221
- 7Mary Stewart195
- 8Morris West190
- 9Herman Wouk179
- 10Len Deighton156
Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.
Their decade: the 1960s.