Authors · NYT Hardcover Fiction
Kit Williams
Charting Jan 4, 1981 → Jul 1, 1984 · 46 weeks with chart power
- Peak Power
- 9.11%
- week of May 17, 1981
- Career Power
- 295
- share-weeks
- Crowns
- 0
- weeks crowned Author of the Week
- Peak Year
- 254
- January 1981 – January 1982
- Peak Five Years
- 295
- July 1979 – July 1984
- Top-five weeks
- 12
- weeks ranked 1–5
- Longevity
- 46
- weeks with chart power
- Dominance
- 12.64%
- week of Mar 8, 1981
- 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
2 books · 295 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Masquerade | #2 | 43 | 279.9 | ||
| Book Without a Name | #8 | 3 | 15.2 |
At their peak
1981 in books →Kit Williams's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from January 1981 to January 1982. The most powerful authors over those weeks:
- 1James Clavell443
- 2Martin Cruz Smith373
- 3Stephen King347
- 4James A. Michener285
- 5Kit Williams254
- 6John Irving236
- 7Colleen McCullough182
- 8Lawrence Sanders171
- 9Cynthia Freeman169
- 10Andrew M. Greeley153
Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.
Their decade: the 1980s.