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Charting Feb 26, 1967 → Mar 16, 1975 · 55 weeks with chart power

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Author of the Year

Author of the Week

  • NYT Hardcover Fiction

    23 crowns

    19671975

    Longest reign 11 weeks (Jul–Sep 1967) · First crown Mar 1967

Peak Power
13.86%
week of Sep 24, 1967
Career Power
609
share-weeks
Crowns
23
weeks crowned Author of the Week
Peak Year
521
December 1966 – December 1967
Peak Five Years
521
November 1962 – December 1967
Top-five weeks
41
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
55
weeks with chart power
Dominance
14.53%
week of Mar 26, 1967
Comebacks
1
Apr 1972

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 · 609 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 Arrangement#142520.9
The Assassins#41179.4
The Understudy#1028.3

At their peak

1966 in books →

Elia Kazan's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from December 1966 to December 1967. The most powerful authors over those weeks:

  1. 1Elia Kazan521
  2. 2Robert Crichton389
  3. 3Thornton Wilder320
  4. 4Chaim Potok307
  5. 5Allen Drury303
  6. 6Jacqueline Susann236
  7. 7Gore Vidal198
  8. 8Ira Levin178
  9. 9Rebecca West156
  10. 10Mary Renault134

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decades: the 1960s, the 1970s.