Authors · NYT Hardcover Fiction
Jan de Hartog
Charting Sep 14, 1952 → May 28, 1967 · 29 weeks with chart power
- Peak Power
- 6.22%
- week of May 7, 1967
- Career Power
- 165
- share-weeks
- Crowns
- 0
- weeks crowned Author of the Week
- Peak Year
- 125
- June 1966 – May 1967
- Peak Five Years
- 125
- May 1962 – May 1967
- Top-five weeks
- 7
- weeks ranked 1–5
- Longevity
- 29
- weeks with chart power
- Dominance
- 9.58%
- week of Mar 5, 1967
- Comebacks
- 1
- Feb 1967, after 14 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
4 books · 165 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 Captain | #4 | 18 | 125.4 | ||
| The Distant Shore | #8 | 8 | 34.0 | ||
| The Spiral Road | #14 | 2 | 4.2 | ||
| The Inspector | #16 | 1 | 1.8 |
At their peak
1966 in books →Jan de Hartog's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from June 1966 to May 1967. The most powerful authors over those weeks:
- 1Jacqueline Susann631
- 2Robert Crichton474
- 3Allen Drury374
- 4James Clavell351
- 5Harold Robbins316
- 6Rebecca West212
- 7James Michener188
- 8Elia Kazan180
- 9Mary Renault162
- 10Edwin O'Connor154
Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.