Authors · NYT Hardcover Fiction
James Dickey
Charting Apr 12, 1970 → Oct 4, 1970 · 26 weeks with chart power
- Peak Power
- 8.55%
- week of Jul 26, 1970
- Career Power
- 233
- share-weeks
- Crowns
- 0
- weeks crowned Author of the Week
- Peak Year
- 233
- October 1969 – October 1970
- Peak Five Years
- 233
- October 1965 – October 1970
- Top-five weeks
- 19
- weeks ranked 1–5
- Longevity
- 26
- weeks with chart power
- Dominance
- 11.01%
- week of Apr 26, 1970
- 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 · 233 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Deliverance | #3 | 26 | 233.4 |
At their peak
1969 in books →James Dickey's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from October 1969 to October 1970. The most powerful authors over those weeks:
- 1John Fowles545
- 2Mario Puzo453
- 3Erich Segal415
- 4Daphne Du Maurier284
- 5James Dickey233
- 6Taylor Caldwell230
- 7Graham Greene186
- 8Jimmy Breslin159
- 9Harold Robbins154
- 10Mary Stewart151
Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.
Their decade: the 1970s.