Authors · NYT Hardcover Fiction
Erich Segal
Charting Mar 1, 1970 → May 10, 1992 · 133 weeks with chart power
Honours
- Author of the Year
Author of the Week
NYT Hardcover Fiction
48 crowns
19701992Longest reign 41 weeks (May 1970 – Feb 1971) · First crown May 1970
- Peak Power
- 14.46%
- week of Feb 14, 1971
- Career Power
- 1,282
- share-weeks
- Crowns
- 48
- weeks crowned Author of the Week
- Peak Year
- 728
- March 1970 – March 1971
- Peak Five Years
- 789
- May 1966 – May 1971
- Top-five weeks
- 81
- weeks ranked 1–5
- Longevity
- 133
- weeks with chart power
- Dominance
- 14.53%
- week of May 10, 1970
- Comebacks
- 2
- Apr 1977, after 6 quiet years · Oct 1988, after 11 quiet years
Ranked by weekly Power Share, part of the ChartReign Power model — not the list's own positions. How it works →
Titles on the NYT Hardcover Fiction
6 books · 1,282 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Love Story | #1 | 62 | 788.9 | ||
| Oliver's Story | #1 | 31 | 300.8 | ||
| Doctors | #4 | 12 | 79.3 | ||
| The Class | #4 | 17 | 73.0 | ||
| Acts of Faith | #8 | 6 | 24.7 | ||
| Man, Woman and Child | #10 | 5 | 15.7 |
At their peak
1970 in books →Erich Segal's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from March 1970 to March 1971. The most powerful authors over those weeks:
- 1Erich Segal728
- 2John Fowles369
- 3Mary Stewart349
- 4Taylor Caldwell310
- 5Ernest Hemingway255
- 6James Dickey233
- 7Irwin Shaw195
- 8Gwen Bristow189
- 9Leon Uris185
- 10Elizabeth Goudge180
Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.