Authors · NYT Hardcover Fiction
Ira Levin
Charting May 21, 1967 → Apr 7, 1991 · 59 weeks with chart power
- Peak Power
- 6.40%
- week of Oct 29, 1967
- Career Power
- 355
- share-weeks
- Crowns
- 0
- weeks crowned Author of the Week
- Peak Year
- 260
- April 1967 – April 1968
- Peak Five Years
- 260
- March 1963 – April 1968
- Top-five weeks
- 3
- weeks ranked 1–5
- Longevity
- 59
- weeks with chart power
- Dominance
- 11.01%
- week of Oct 8, 1967
- Comebacks
- 1
- Apr 1976, after 8 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
3 books · 355 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rosemary's Baby | #3 | 43 | 260.5 | ||
| The Boys from Brazil | #4 | 14 | 88.1 | ||
| Sliver | #11 | 2 | 6.8 |
At their peak
1967 in books →Ira Levin's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from April 1967 to April 1968. The most powerful authors over those weeks:
- 1Elia Kazan442
- 2Chaim Potok367
- 3William Styron342
- 4Thornton Wilder320
- 5Leon Uris311
- 6Ira Levin260
- 7Gore Vidal245
- 8Mary Stewart239
- 9Catherine Marshall219
- 10Robert Crichton147
Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.