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Fred Mustard Stewart

Charting Feb 22, 1981 → Mar 24, 1985 · 31 weeks with chart power

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Peak Power
6.00%
week of Apr 26, 1981
Career Power
167
share-weeks
Crowns
0
weeks crowned Author of the Week
Peak Year
113
June 1980 – June 1981
Peak Five Years
167
April 1980 – March 1985
Top-five weeks
5
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
31
weeks with chart power
Dominance
11.01%
week of Mar 29, 1981
Comebacks
1
Mar 1983

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 · 167 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.

TitlePeakWeeksPower
Century#318112.6
Ellis Island#61149.3
The Titan#1225.6

At their peak

1980 in books →

Fred Mustard Stewart's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from June 1980 to June 1981. The most powerful authors over those weeks:

  1. 1James A. Michener438
  2. 2Sidney Sheldon353
  3. 3Stephen King340
  4. 4Ken Follett313
  5. 5Kit Williams197
  6. 6Cynthia Freeman191
  7. 7Belva Plain181
  8. 8E. L. Doctorow166
  9. 9Taylor Caldwell161
  10. 10Robert Ludlum140

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decade: the 1980s.