Authors · NYT Hardcover Fiction
Carson McCullers
Charting Sep 3, 1961 → Feb 4, 1962 · 22 weeks with chart power
- Peak Power
- 4.46%
- week of Dec 10, 1961
- Career Power
- 96
- share-weeks
- Crowns
- 0
- weeks crowned Author of the Week
- Peak Year
- 96
- February 1961 – February 1962
- Peak Five Years
- 96
- February 1957 – February 1962
- Top-five weeks
- 0
- weeks ranked 1–5
- Longevity
- 22
- weeks with chart power
- Dominance
- 6.32%
- week of Oct 22, 1961
- 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 · 96 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Clock Without Hands | #7 | 22 | 96.2 |
At their peak
1961 in books →Carson McCullers's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from February 1961 to February 1962. The most powerful authors over those weeks:
- 1Irving Stone602
- 2Harper Lee580
- 3Andre Schwarz-Bart292
- 4J.D. Salinger264
- 5Leon Uris251
- 6James A. Michener249
- 7Harold Robbins240
- 8Edwin O'Connor192
- 9Graham Greene191
- 10Allen Drury168
Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.
Their decade: the 1960s.