Authors · NYT Hardcover Fiction
Harvey Wheeler
Charting Nov 4, 1962 → Jun 2, 1963 · 30 weeks with chart power
- Peak Power
- 5.11%
- week of Mar 3, 1963
- Career Power
- 142
- share-weeks
- Crowns
- 0
- weeks crowned Author of the Week
- Peak Year
- 142
- June 1962 – June 1963
- Peak Five Years
- 142
- May 1958 – June 1963
- Top-five weeks
- 0
- weeks ranked 1–5
- Longevity
- 30
- weeks with chart power
- Dominance
- 6.32%
- week of Dec 23, 1962
- 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 · 142 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fail-Safewith Eugene Burdick | #2 | 30 | 141.7 |
At their peak
1962 in books →Harvey Wheeler's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from June 1962 to June 1963. The most powerful authors over those weeks:
- 1Katherine Anne Porter421
- 2J.D. Salinger319
- 3Anne Morrow Lindbergh291
- 4Allen Drury259
- 5Herman Wouk246
- 6Charles W. Bailey II228
- 7Fletcher Knebel228
- 8Irving Wallace221
- 9Richard McKenna200
- 10William Faulkner165
Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.
Their decade: the 1960s.