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Louis Auchincloss portraitLouis Auchincloss

Charting Feb 3, 1952 → Sep 11, 1977 · 140 weeks with chart power

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Author of the Week

  • NYT Hardcover Fiction

    1 crown

    19521977

    First crown Oct 1964

Peak Power
11.88%
week of Feb 7, 1965
Career Power
1,030
share-weeks
Crowns
1
weeks crowned Author of the Week
Peak Year
385
April 1964 – March 1965
Peak Five Years
803
August 1962 – August 1967
Top-five weeks
56
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
140
weeks with chart power
Dominance
14.53%
week of Oct 4, 1964
Comebacks
3
Aug 1962 · Aug 1964 · May 1974, after 7 quiet years

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

11 books · 1,030 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
The Rector of Justin#135384.6
The Embezzler#227217.0
Tales of Manhattan#418129.0
The Partners#515104.5
A World of Profit#61366.5
Portrait in Brownstone#71461.8
The House of Five Talents#71245.8
Powers of Attorney#10312.5
I Come as a Thief#1014.2
The Dark Lady#1412.4
Sybil#1512.1

At their peak

1964 in books →

Louis Auchincloss's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from April 1964 to March 1965. The most powerful authors over those weeks:

  1. 1John le Carré532
  2. 2Louis Auchincloss385
  3. 3Saul Bellow348
  4. 4Leon Uris283
  5. 5Mary Stewart258
  6. 6Gore Vidal242
  7. 7Irving Wallace234
  8. 8Mary McCarthy181
  9. 9Mason Hoffenberg158
  10. 10Terry Southern158

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decades: the 1950s, the 1960s, the 1970s.