Authors · NYT Hardcover Fiction
James Baldwin
Charting Jul 8, 1962 → Aug 25, 1974 · 33 weeks with chart power
- Peak Power
- 5.06%
- week of Oct 7, 1962
- Career Power
- 174
- share-weeks
- Crowns
- 0
- weeks crowned Author of the Week
- Peak Year
- 122
- December 1961 – December 1962
- Peak Five Years
- 122
- December 1957 – December 1962
- Top-five weeks
- 0
- weeks ranked 1–5
- Longevity
- 33
- weeks with chart power
- Dominance
- 7.26%
- week of Sep 2, 1962
- Comebacks
- 1
- Aug 1974, after 11 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 · 174 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Another Country | #6 | 23 | 121.7 | ||
| If Beale Street Could Talk | #7 | 7 | 35.3 | ||
| Tell Me How Long the Train's Been Gone | #7 | 3 | 17.3 |
At their peak
1961 in books →James Baldwin's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from December 1961 to December 1962. The most powerful authors over those weeks:
- 1J.D. Salinger456
- 2Katherine Anne Porter455
- 3Irving Stone392
- 4Anne Morrow Lindbergh261
- 5Herman Wouk250
- 6Harper Lee206
- 7Mary Renault197
- 8Taylor Caldwell197
- 9Irving Wallace197
- 10William Faulkner164
Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.