Authors · NYT Hardcover Fiction
Doris Mortman
Charting Aug 16, 1987 → Aug 18, 1991 · 7 weeks with chart power
- Peak Power
- 1.25%
- week of Aug 13, 1989
- Career Power
- 19
- share-weeks
- Crowns
- 0
- weeks crowned Author of the Week
- Peak Year
- 14
- August 1988 – August 1989
- Peak Five Years
- 19
- August 1986 – August 1991
- Top-five weeks
- 0
- weeks ranked 1–5
- Longevity
- 7
- weeks with chart power
- Dominance
- 3.63%
- week of Jul 30, 1989
- 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
3 books · 19 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rightfully Mine | #11 | 5 | 14.3 | ||
| The Wild Rose | #13 | 1 | 2.8 | ||
| First Born | #14 | 1 | 2.4 |
At their peak
1988 in books →Doris Mortman's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from August 1988 to August 1989. The most powerful authors over those weeks:
- 1Tom Clancy397
- 2Sidney Sheldon244
- 3Salman Rushdie222
- 4Danielle Steel217
- 5Anne Tyler209
- 6James A. Michener200
- 7Anne Rice161
- 8Amy Tan157
- 9Mary Higgins Clark155
- 10Frederick Forsyth150
Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.