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Dorothy Uhnak

Charting May 27, 1973 → Oct 18, 1981 · 25 weeks with chart power

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Peak Power
3.00%
week of Jul 8, 1973
Career Power
101
share-weeks
Crowns
0
weeks crowned Author of the Week
Peak Year
47
December 1976 – December 1977
Peak Five Years
90
December 1972 – December 1977
Top-five weeks
0
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
25
weeks with chart power
Dominance
6.32%
week of Jun 17, 1973
Comebacks
1
Sep 1977

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 · 101 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.

TitlePeakWeeksPower
The Investigation#81347.4
Law and Order#7842.8
False Witness#11411.2

At their peak

1976 in books →

Dorothy Uhnak's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from December 1976 to December 1977. The most powerful authors over those weeks:

  1. 1Paul E. Erdman437
  2. 2Leon Uris408
  3. 3Colleen McCullough390
  4. 4Erich Segal301
  5. 5John Cheever253
  6. 6Richard Bach234
  7. 7Clive Cussler200
  8. 8J.R.R. Tolkien171
  9. 9John D. MacDonald170
  10. 10Agatha Christie152

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decades: the 1970s, the 1980s.