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Katherine Anne Porter portraitKatherine Anne Porter

Charting Apr 15, 1962Feb 17, 1963 · 44 weeks with chart power

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Author of the Year

Author of the Week

  • NYT Hardcover Fiction

    26 crowns

    19621963

    Longest 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 →

Exponentially smoothed share of the week's total power (the primary metric).

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.

TitlePeakWeeksPower
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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:

  1. 1Katherine Anne Porter506
  2. 2J.D. Salinger331
  3. 3Anne Morrow Lindbergh291
  4. 4Irving Stone278
  5. 5Herman Wouk250
  6. 6Allen Drury221
  7. 7Irving Wallace221
  8. 8Mary Renault197
  9. 9William Faulkner165
  10. 10Richard Hughes159

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decade: the 1960s.