Authors · NYT Hardcover Fiction
Jessamyn West
Charting Jan 20, 1946 → Aug 10, 1975 · 58 weeks with chart power
- Peak Power
- 5.92%
- week of Aug 3, 1969
- Career Power
- 285
- share-weeks
- Crowns
- 0
- weeks crowned Author of the Week
- Peak Year
- 131
- September 1968 – September 1969
- Peak Five Years
- 131
- September 1964 – September 1969
- Top-five weeks
- 4
- weeks ranked 1–5
- Longevity
- 58
- weeks with chart power
- Dominance
- 9.58%
- week of May 18, 1969
- Comebacks
- 3
- Feb 1954 · Apr 1969, after 15 quiet years · Jun 1975, after 6 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
7 books · 285 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Except for Me and Thee | #4 | 20 | 131.2 | ||
| The Massacre at Fall Creek | #6 | 13 | 77.7 | ||
| Cress Delahanty | #8 | 11 | 39.3 | ||
| The Witch Diggers | #10 | 5 | 15.3 | ||
| South of the Angels | #13 | 5 | 11.7 | ||
| The Friendly Persuasion | #12 | 3 | 8.0 | ||
| Love, Death and the Ladies' Drill Team | #16 | 1 | 1.8 |
At their peak
1968 in books →Jessamyn West's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from September 1968 to September 1969. The most powerful authors over those weeks:
- 1Helen MacInnes503
- 2Arthur Hailey423
- 3Philip Roth372
- 4John le Carré296
- 5Mario Puzo270
- 6Allen Drury265
- 7Jacqueline Susann216
- 8Taylor Caldwell170
- 9Cameron Hawley157
- 10Vladimir Nabokov137
Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.