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Hal Borland

Charting Jul 7, 1963Jul 28, 1963 · 2 weeks with chart power

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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.

TitlePeakWeeksPower
When the Legends Die#1028.3

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:

  1. 1J.D. Salinger306
  2. 2Katherine Anne Porter305
  3. 3Charles W. Bailey II264
  4. 4Fletcher Knebel264
  5. 5Allen Drury259
  6. 6Richard McKenna250
  7. 7Anne Morrow Lindbergh241
  8. 8Daphne Du Maurier201
  9. 9Irving Wallace195
  10. 10John O'Hara183

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decade: the 1960s.