Authors · NYT Hardcover Fiction
Elizabeth Forsythe Hailey
Charting Nov 7, 1982 → May 18, 1986 · 21 weeks with chart power
- 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.
| Title | Peak | Weeks | On chart | Power contributedPower | Book Power |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Life Sentences | #11 | 13 | 38.6 | ||
| Joanna's Husband and David's Wife | #7 | 8 | 30.8 |
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:
- 1Robert Ludlum405
- 2James A. Michener284
- 3John Jakes273
- 4Sidney Sheldon249
- 5Jean M. Auel232
- 6Stephen King229
- 7William Kotzwinkle209
- 8Jeffrey Archer208
- 9Ken Follett206
- 10Stephen R. Donaldson165
Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.
Their decade: the 1980s.