Authors · NYT Hardcover Fiction

Fletcher Knebel

Charting Sep 23, 1962 → Nov 26, 1972 · 144 weeks with chart power

Peak Power: 9.33%; week of May 19, 1968
Career Power: 940; share-weeks
Weeks at #1: 1; weeks as the top author

Peak Year: 288; September 1967 – September 1968
Peak Five Years: 533; August 1963 – August 1968
Top-five weeks: 55; weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity: 144; weeks with chart power
Dominance: 14.53%; week of Mar 31, 1968
Comebacks: 2; February 1968, August 1972

Comebacks (thresholds from `config/scoring.json`)
Kind	Trough began	Returned	Trough weeks	Longest absence	Prior peak	Return share
After absence	Jan 9, 1966	Feb 18, 1968	110	107	6.51%	2.89%
After absence	Nov 10, 1968	Aug 27, 1972	198	192	9.33%	3.56%

Ranked by weekly Power Share, part of the ChartReign Power model — not the list's own positions (config version 4, Sep 22, 2026). How it works →

Exponentially smoothed share of the week's total power (the primary metric).

Titles on the NYT Hardcover Fiction

5 books · 940 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
Vanished	#1March 1968	32	January 1968 – September 1968	287.9	287.9
Seven Days in Maywith Charles W. Bailey II	#1November 1962	48	September 1962 – August 1963	276.9	553.8
Dark Horse	#3September 1972	19	July 1972 – November 1972	131.3	131.3
Conventionwith Charles W. Bailey II	#2May 1964	27	March 1964 – September 1964	131.3	262.5
Night of Camp David	#5July 1965	18	June 1965 – October 1965	113.2	113.2