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Elizabeth Forsythe Hailey

Charting Nov 7, 1982May 18, 1986 · 21 weeks with chart power

Compare with other authors
Peak Power
2.25%
week of May 4, 1986
Career Power
69
share-weeks
Crowns
0
weeks crowned Author of the Week
Peak Year
39
February 1982 – February 1983
Peak Five Years
69
May 1981 – May 1986
Top-five weeks
0
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
21
weeks with chart power
Dominance
6.32%
week of Apr 13, 1986
Comebacks
1
Apr 1986

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 · 69 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
Life Sentences#111338.6
Joanna's Husband and David's Wife#7830.8

At their peak

1982 in books

Elizabeth Forsythe Hailey's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from February 1982 to February 1983. The most powerful authors over those weeks:

  1. 1Robert Ludlum405
  2. 2James A. Michener284
  3. 3John Jakes273
  4. 4Sidney Sheldon249
  5. 5Jean M. Auel232
  6. 6Stephen King229
  7. 7William Kotzwinkle209
  8. 8Jeffrey Archer208
  9. 9Ken Follett206
  10. 10Stephen R. Donaldson165

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decade: the 1980s.