Authors · NYT Hardcover Fiction
Garson Kanin
Charting Jan 27, 1980 → Mar 2, 1980 · 6 weeks with chart power
- Peak Power
- 1.20%
- week of Mar 2, 1980
- Career Power
- 15
- share-weeks
- Crowns
- 0
- weeks crowned Author of the Week
- Peak Year
- 15
- March 1979 – March 1980
- Peak Five Years
- 15
- December 1974 – March 1980
- Top-five weeks
- 0
- weeks ranked 1–5
- Longevity
- 6
- weeks with chart power
- Dominance
- 3.63%
- week of Jan 27, 1980
- 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 · 15 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Moviola | #11 | 6 | 14.7 |
At their peak
1979 in books →Garson Kanin's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from March 1979 to March 1980. The most powerful authors over those weeks:
- 1Robert Ludlum402
- 2William Styron343
- 3Herman Wouk285
- 4Kurt Vonnegut277
- 5Mary Stewart254
- 6Ken Follett249
- 7General Sir John Hackett233
- 8Howard Fast216
- 9Joseph Heller207
- 10Stephen King196
Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.
Their decade: the 1980s.