Authors · NYT Hardcover Fiction
Herbert Gold
Charting Apr 16, 1967 → Jul 16, 1967 · 12 weeks with chart power
- Peak Power
- 3.37%
- week of Jun 4, 1967
- Career Power
- 63
- share-weeks
- Crowns
- 0
- weeks crowned Author of the Week
- Peak Year
- 63
- July 1966 – July 1967
- Peak Five Years
- 63
- July 1962 – July 1967
- Top-five weeks
- 0
- weeks ranked 1–5
- Longevity
- 12
- weeks with chart power
- Dominance
- 7.26%
- week of Apr 16, 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
1 book · 63 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fathers | #6 | 12 | 63.3 |
At their peak
1966 in books →Herbert Gold's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from July 1966 to July 1967. The most powerful authors over those weeks:
- 1Jacqueline Susann534
- 2Robert Crichton524
- 3Allen Drury406
- 4James Clavell310
- 5Elia Kazan275
- 6Harold Robbins228
- 7Rebecca West212
- 8Thornton Wilder176
- 9Mary Renault162
- 10Edwin O'Connor154
Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.
Their decade: the 1960s.