Authors · NYT Hardcover Fiction
Gwyn Griffin
Charting Sep 3, 1961 → Nov 19, 1967 · 10 weeks with chart power
- 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.
| Title | Peak | Weeks | On chart | Power contributedPower | Book Power |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| An Operational Necessity | #8 | 8 | 36.6 | ||
| Master of This Vessel | #11 | 2 | 6.4 |
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:
- 1Elia Kazan503
- 2Robert Crichton432
- 3Allen Drury336
- 4Thornton Wilder320
- 5Chaim Potok282
- 6Jacqueline Susann274
- 7Gore Vidal198
- 8Rebecca West185
- 9Ira Levin159
- 10Mary Renault156
Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.
Their decade: the 1960s.