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John Cheever

Charting Apr 14, 1957 → Jun 17, 1979 · 96 weeks with chart power

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Honours

Author of the Week

NYT Hardcover Fiction
3 crowns
19571979
Longest reign 2 weeks (Jun 1977) · First crown May 1977

Peak Power: 10.68%; week of Jul 17, 1977
Career Power: 671; share-weeks
Crowns: 3; weeks crowned Author of the Week

Peak Year: 253; October 1976 – September 1977
Peak Five Years: 412; March 1974 – June 1979
Top-five weeks: 43; weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity: 96; weeks with chart power
Dominance: 14.53%; week of May 22, 1977
Comebacks: 2; Feb 1964, after 6 quiet years · Apr 1977, after 13 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

6 books · 671 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
Falconer	#1May 1977	25	April 1977 – September 1977	253.0	253.0
The Wapshot Scandal	#4March 1964	23	January 1964 – June 1964	172.0	172.0
The Stories of John Cheever	#3January 1979	26	December 1978 – June 1979	159.0	159.0
The Wapshot Chronicle	#8May 1957	13	April 1957 – July 1957	45.9	45.9
Bullet Park	#8June 1969	8	May 1969 – July 1969	35.9	35.9
The World of Apples	#8June 1973	1	June 1973	5.5	5.5

At their peak

1976 in books →

John Cheever's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from October 1976 to September 1977. The most powerful authors over those weeks:

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decades: the 1950s, the 1960s, the 1970s.