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Gwyn Griffin

Charting Sep 3, 1961Nov 19, 1967 · 10 weeks with chart power

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Peak Power
2.41%
week of Nov 19, 1967
Career Power
43
share-weeks
Crowns
0
weeks crowned Author of the Week
Peak Year
37
November 1966 – November 1967
Peak Five Years
37
November 1962 – November 1967
Top-five weeks
0
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
10
weeks with chart power
Dominance
5.50%
week of Oct 8, 1967
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

2 books · 43 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
An Operational Necessity#8836.6
Master of This Vessel#1126.4

At their peak

1966 in books

Gwyn Griffin's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from November 1966 to November 1967. The most powerful authors over those weeks:

  1. 1Elia Kazan503
  2. 2Robert Crichton432
  3. 3Allen Drury336
  4. 4Thornton Wilder320
  5. 5Chaim Potok282
  6. 6Jacqueline Susann274
  7. 7Gore Vidal198
  8. 8Rebecca West185
  9. 9Ira Levin159
  10. 10Mary Renault156

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decade: the 1960s.