Authors · NYT Hardcover Fiction
Jere Peacock
Charting Feb 26, 1961 → Mar 12, 1961 · 3 weeks with chart power
- Peak Power
- 0.74%
- week of Mar 12, 1961
- Career Power
- 8
- share-weeks
- Crowns
- 0
- weeks crowned Author of the Week
- Peak Year
- 8
- March 1960 – March 1961
- Peak Five Years
- 8
- March 1956 – March 1961
- Top-five weeks
- 0
- weeks ranked 1–5
- Longevity
- 3
- weeks with chart power
- Dominance
- 3.16%
- week of Feb 26, 1961
- 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 · 8 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Valhalla | #12 | 3 | 7.7 |
At their peak
1960 in books →Jere Peacock's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from March 1960 to March 1961. The most powerful authors over those weeks:
- 1James A. Michener731
- 2Allen Drury680
- 3Guiseppe di Lampedusa345
- 4Harper Lee278
- 5John O'Hara220
- 6Mary Ellen Chase217
- 7Irving Wallace213
- 8Marcia Davenport193
- 9Elizabeth Goudge157
- 10Cameron Hawley142
Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.
Their decade: the 1960s.