Authors · NYT Hardcover Fiction
John Knowles
Charting Mar 27, 1960 → Apr 3, 1960 · 2 weeks with chart power
- Peak Power
- 0.38%
- week of Apr 3, 1960
- Career Power
- 4
- share-weeks
- Crowns
- 0
- weeks crowned Author of the Week
- Peak Year
- 4
- April 1959 – April 1960
- Peak Five Years
- 4
- April 1955 – April 1960
- Top-five weeks
- 0
- weeks ranked 1–5
- Longevity
- 2
- weeks with chart power
- Dominance
- 1.82%
- week of Mar 27, 1960
- 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 · 4 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| A Separate Peace | #16 | 2 | 3.6 |
At their peak
1959 in books →John Knowles's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from April 1959 to April 1960. The most powerful authors over those weeks:
- 1Leon Uris583
- 2Taylor Caldwell459
- 3Allen Drury434
- 4Boris Pasternak295
- 5D.H. Lawrence251
- 6James A. Michener249
- 7Eugene Burdick222
- 8William J. Lederer222
- 9Robert Ruark177
- 10John Hersey167
Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.
Their decade: the 1960s.