Authors · NYT Hardcover Fiction
Hal Borland
Charting Jul 7, 1963 → Jul 28, 1963 · 2 weeks with chart power
- Peak Power
- 0.78%
- week of Jul 28, 1963
- Career Power
- 8
- share-weeks
- Crowns
- 0
- weeks crowned Author of the Week
- Peak Year
- 8
- July 1962 – July 1963
- Peak Five Years
- 8
- July 1958 – July 1963
- Top-five weeks
- 0
- weeks ranked 1–5
- Longevity
- 2
- weeks with chart power
- Dominance
- 4.17%
- week of Jul 7, 1963
- 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 · 8 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| When the Legends Die | #10 | 2 | 8.3 |
At their peak
1962 in books →Hal Borland's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from July 1962 to July 1963. The most powerful authors over those weeks:
- 1J.D. Salinger306
- 2Katherine Anne Porter305
- 3Charles W. Bailey II264
- 4Fletcher Knebel264
- 5Allen Drury259
- 6Richard McKenna250
- 7Anne Morrow Lindbergh241
- 8Daphne Du Maurier201
- 9Irving Wallace195
- 10John O'Hara183
Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.
Their decade: the 1960s.