Authors · NYT Hardcover Fiction
Eric Ambler
Charting May 13, 1951 → Sep 24, 1972 · 15 weeks with chart power
- Peak Power
- 3.45%
- week of Sep 24, 1972
- Career Power
- 64
- share-weeks
- Crowns
- 0
- weeks crowned Author of the Week
- Peak Year
- 50
- October 1971 – September 1972
- Peak Five Years
- 50
- October 1967 – September 1972
- Top-five weeks
- 0
- weeks ranked 1–5
- Longevity
- 15
- weeks with chart power
- Dominance
- 6.32%
- week of Sep 3, 1972
- Comebacks
- 0
- none detected
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 · 64 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| The Levanter | #7 | 10 | 50.2 | ||
| The Schirmer Inheritance | #11 | 4 | 12.0 | ||
| Judgement on Deltchev | #15 | 1 | 2.1 |
At their peak
1971 in books →Eric Ambler's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from October 1971 to September 1972. The most powerful authors over those weeks:
- 1Herman Wouk567
- 2Arthur Hailey392
- 3William Peter Blatty386
- 4Frederick Forsyth369
- 5Irving Wallace284
- 6Richard Bach260
- 7Taylor Caldwell222
- 8Helen MacInnes219
- 9Chaim Potok175
- 10John Updike125
Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.