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Jane McIlvaine McClary

Charting Jun 11, 1972 → Oct 29, 1972 · 17 weeks with chart power

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Peak Power
4.98%
week of Sep 17, 1972
Career Power
100
share-weeks
Crowns
0
weeks crowned Author of the Week
Peak Year
100
November 1971 – October 1972
Peak Five Years
100
November 1967 – October 1972
Top-five weeks
0
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
17
weeks with chart power
Dominance
7.26%
week of Aug 6, 1972
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 · 100 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.

TitlePeakWeeksPower
A Portion for Foxes#617100.1

At their peak

1971 in books →

Jane McIlvaine McClary's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from November 1971 to October 1972. The most powerful authors over those weeks:

  1. 1Herman Wouk624
  2. 2Arthur Hailey340
  3. 3Richard Bach333
  4. 4William Peter Blatty321
  5. 5Irving Wallace308
  6. 6Frederick Forsyth300
  7. 7Taylor Caldwell267
  8. 8Chaim Potok203
  9. 9Helen MacInnes183
  10. 10John Updike125

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decade: the 1970s.