Authors · NYT Hardcover Fiction
Francine du Plessix Gray
Charting Nov 28, 1976 → Dec 5, 1976 · 2 weeks with chart power
- Peak Power
- 0.86%
- week of Dec 5, 1976
- Career Power
- 8
- share-weeks
- Crowns
- 0
- weeks crowned Author of the Week
- Peak Year
- 8
- December 1975 – December 1976
- Peak Five Years
- 8
- December 1971 – December 1976
- Top-five weeks
- 0
- weeks ranked 1–5
- Longevity
- 2
- weeks with chart power
- Dominance
- 4.17%
- week of Nov 28, 1976
- 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
1 book · 8 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lovers and Tyrants | #10 | 2 | 8.3 |
At their peak
1975 in books →Francine du Plessix Gray's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from December 1975 to December 1976. The most powerful authors over those weeks:
- 1Leon Uris497
- 2Agatha Christie427
- 3Gore Vidal274
- 4Joseph Wambaugh267
- 5Peter Benchley211
- 6Jacqueline Susann207
- 7Harold Robbins205
- 8E. L. Doctorow205
- 9Mary Stewart161
- 10Jack Higgins151
Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.
Their decade: the 1970s.