Authors · NYT Hardcover Fiction
Leo Calvin Rosten
Charting Jan 28, 1962 → Aug 12, 1962 · 23 weeks with chart power
- Peak Power
- 3.89%
- week of Jun 10, 1962
- Career Power
- 88
- share-weeks
- Crowns
- 0
- weeks crowned Author of the Week
- Peak Year
- 88
- August 1961 – August 1962
- Peak Five Years
- 88
- August 1957 – August 1962
- Top-five weeks
- 0
- weeks ranked 1–5
- Longevity
- 23
- weeks with chart power
- Dominance
- 6.32%
- week of Apr 15, 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 · 88 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Captain Newman, M.D. | #7 | 23 | 88.2 |
At their peak
1961 in books →Leo Calvin Rosten's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from August 1961 to August 1962. The most powerful authors over those weeks:
- 1Irving Stone587
- 2J.D. Salinger582
- 3Harper Lee406
- 4Katherine Anne Porter244
- 5Harold Robbins228
- 6Taylor Caldwell204
- 7Mary Renault196
- 8Edward Streeter183
- 9Leon Uris160
- 10Richard Hughes159
Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.
Their decade: the 1960s.