Authors · NYT Hardcover Fiction
Elliott Arnold
Charting Jun 22, 1942 → Jan 21, 1968 · 27 weeks with chart power
- Peak Power
- 5.38%
- week of Nov 26, 1967
- Career Power
- 144
- share-weeks
- Crowns
- 0
- weeks crowned Author of the Week
- Peak Year
- 118
- January 1967 – January 1968
- Peak Five Years
- 118
- January 1963 – January 1968
- Top-five weeks
- 3
- weeks ranked 1–5
- Longevity
- 27
- weeks with chart power
- Dominance
- 9.58%
- week of Sep 10, 1967
- Comebacks
- 1
- Aug 1967, after 19 quiet years
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 · 144 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| A Night of Watching | #4 | 20 | 117.9 | ||
| Everybody Slept Here | #9 | 6 | 17.7 | ||
| The Commandos | #5 | 1 | 8.3 |
At their peak
1967 in books →Elliott Arnold's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from January 1967 to January 1968. The most powerful authors over those weeks:
- 1Elia Kazan521
- 2Chaim Potok344
- 3Thornton Wilder320
- 4Robert Crichton302
- 5Allen Drury227
- 6Ira Levin211
- 7Gore Vidal198
- 8Leon Uris190
- 9William Styron189
- 10Mary Stewart179
Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.