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Harper Lee

Charting Aug 7, 1960 → Apr 10, 2016 · 131 weeks with chart power

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Honours

Author of the Year

Author of the Week

  • NYT Hardcover Fiction

    6 crowns

    19602016

    Longest reign 6 weeks (Aug–Sep 2015) · First crown Aug 2015

Peak Power
12.26%
week of Oct 8, 1961
Career Power
1,152
share-weeks
Crowns
6
weeks crowned Author of the Week
Peak Year
584
February 1961 – February 1962
Peak Five Years
929
June 1957 – June 1962
Top-five weeks
87
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
131
weeks with chart power
Dominance
14.53%
week of Aug 2, 2015
Comebacks
1
Aug 2015, after 53 quiet years

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 · 1,152 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
To Kill a Mockingbird#298929.2
Go Set a Watchman#133222.8

At their peak

1961 in books →

Harper Lee's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from February 1961 to February 1962. The most powerful authors over those weeks:

  1. 1Irving Stone627
  2. 2Harper Lee584
  3. 3J.D. Salinger293
  4. 4Andre Schwarz-Bart270
  5. 5Leon Uris251
  6. 6Harold Robbins248
  7. 7James A. Michener220
  8. 8Edwin O'Connor192
  9. 9Graham Greene191
  10. 10Henry Miller146

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decades: the 1960s, the 1970s, the 1980s, the 1990s, the 2000s, the 2010s.