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Howard Fast

Charting May 17, 1943 → Mar 22, 1987 · 132 weeks with chart power

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Honours

Author of the Week

NYT Hardcover Fiction
6 crowns
19431987
Longest reign 4 weeks (Nov–Dec 1979) · First crown Oct 1979

Peak Power: 9.52%; week of Jan 6, 1980
Career Power: 779; share-weeks
Crowns: 6; weeks crowned Author of the Week

Peak Year: 233; December 1978 – December 1979
Peak Five Years: 588; September 1977 – December 1982
Top-five weeks: 37; weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity: 132; weeks with chart power
Dominance: 14.53%; week of Oct 28, 1979
Comebacks: 3; Sep 1946 · Nov 1977, after 31 quiet years · Nov 1981

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

10 books · 779 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
The Establishment	#1October 1979	26	October 1979 – April 1980	215.3	215.3
Second Generation	#3December 1978	20	November 1978 – March 1979	146.2	146.2
The Immigrants	#5November 1977	22	October 1977 – March 1978	103.2	103.1
Citizen Tom Paine	#2June 1943	10	May 1943 – August 1943	92.9	92.9
The Legacy	#4November 1981	17	September 1981 – January 1982	90.9	90.9
The American	#4August 1946	8	August 1946 – September 1946	45.3	45.3
Max	#8October 1982	12	October 1982 – January 1983	36.7	36.7
The Immigrant's Daughter	#11October 1985	8	October 1985 – November 1985	24.2	24.1
The Outsider	#11September 1984	5	September 1984 – October 1984	15.1	15.1
The Dinner Party	#13March 1987	4	March 1987 – March 1987	9.6	9.3

At their peak

1978 in books →

Howard Fast's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from December 1978 to December 1979. The most powerful authors over those weeks:

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decades: the 1940s, the 1950s, the 1960s, the 1970s, the 1980s.