Authors · NYT Hardcover Fiction
Bruce Jay Friedman
Charting Sep 13, 1964 → Nov 15, 1964 · 9 weeks with chart power
- Peak Power
- 2.71%
- week of Nov 1, 1964
- Career Power
- 40
- share-weeks
- Crowns
- 0
- weeks crowned Author of the Week
- Peak Year
- 40
- November 1963 – November 1964
- Peak Five Years
- 40
- November 1959 – November 1964
- Top-five weeks
- 0
- weeks ranked 1–5
- Longevity
- 9
- weeks with chart power
- Dominance
- 5.50%
- week of Oct 4, 1964
- 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 · 40 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| A Mother's Kisses | #8 | 9 | 40.2 |
At their peak
1963 in books →Bruce Jay Friedman's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from November 1963 to November 1964. The most powerful authors over those weeks:
- 1John le Carré593
- 2Mary McCarthy446
- 3Helen MacInnes263
- 4Leon Uris217
- 5Morris L. West187
- 6Gore Vidal181
- 7Louis Auchincloss174
- 8John Cheever172
- 9Ian Fleming159
- 10John O'Hara152
Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.
Their decade: the 1960s.