Authors · NYT Hardcover Fiction
Charles W. Bailey II
Charting Sep 23, 1962 → Sep 27, 1964 · 75 weeks with chart power
- Peak Power
- 6.51%
- week of Mar 3, 1963
- Career Power
- 408
- share-weeks
- Crowns
- 0
- weeks crowned Author of the Week
- Peak Year
- 277
- August 1962 – August 1963
- Peak Five Years
- 408
- September 1959 – September 1964
- Top-five weeks
- 14
- weeks ranked 1–5
- Longevity
- 75
- weeks with chart power
- Dominance
- 7.26%
- week of Nov 18, 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
2 books · 408 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Seven Days in Maywith Fletcher Knebel | #1 | 48 | 276.9 | ||
| Conventionwith Fletcher Knebel | #2 | 27 | 131.3 |
At their peak
1962 in books →Charles W. Bailey II's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from August 1962 to August 1963. The most powerful authors over those weeks:
- 1J.D. Salinger309
- 2Charles W. Bailey II277
- 3Fletcher Knebel277
- 4Allen Drury259
- 5Richard McKenna255
- 6Katherine Anne Porter247
- 7Daphne Du Maurier243
- 8John O'Hara221
- 9Anne Morrow Lindbergh192
- 10Taylor Caldwell174
Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.
Their decade: the 1960s.