Authors · NYT Hardcover Fiction
Fred Mustard Stewart
Charting Feb 22, 1981 → Mar 24, 1985 · 31 weeks with chart power
- 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.
| Title | Peak | Weeks | On chart | Power contributedPower | Book Power |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Century | #3 | 18 | 112.6 | ||
| Ellis Island | #6 | 11 | 49.3 | ||
| The Titan | #12 | 2 | 5.6 |
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:
- 1James A. Michener438
- 2Sidney Sheldon353
- 3Stephen King340
- 4Ken Follett313
- 5Kit Williams197
- 6Cynthia Freeman191
- 7Belva Plain181
- 8E. L. Doctorow166
- 9Taylor Caldwell161
- 10Robert Ludlum140
Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.
Their decade: the 1980s.