Authors · NYT Hardcover Fiction
Katherine Anne Porter
Charting Apr 15, 1962 → Feb 17, 1963 · 44 weeks with chart power
Honours
- Author of the Year
Author of the Week
NYT Hardcover Fiction
26 crowns
19621963Longest reign 26 weeks (Apr–Oct 1962) · First crown Apr 1962
- Peak Power
- 13.87%
- week of Oct 21, 1962
- Career Power
- 506
- share-weeks
- Crowns
- 26
- weeks crowned Author of the Week
- Peak Year
- 506
- February 1962 – February 1963
- Peak Five Years
- 506
- February 1958 – February 1963
- Top-five weeks
- 33
- weeks ranked 1–5
- Longevity
- 44
- weeks with chart power
- Dominance
- 14.53%
- week of Apr 29, 1962
- Comebacks
- 0
- none detected
Ranked by weekly Power Share, part of the ChartReign Power model — not the list's own positions. How it works →
Titles on the NYT Hardcover Fiction
1 book · 506 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ship of Fools | #1 | 44 | 505.8 |
At their peak
1962 in books →Katherine Anne Porter's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from February 1962 to February 1963. The most powerful authors over those weeks:
- 1Katherine Anne Porter506
- 2J.D. Salinger331
- 3Anne Morrow Lindbergh291
- 4Irving Stone278
- 5Herman Wouk250
- 6Allen Drury221
- 7Irving Wallace221
- 8Mary Renault197
- 9William Faulkner165
- 10Richard Hughes159
Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.
Their decade: the 1960s.