Authors · NYT Hardcover Fiction
Lucian K. Truscott IV
Charting Feb 25, 1979 → May 20, 1979 · 13 weeks with chart power
- Peak Power
- 3.77%
- week of May 13, 1979
- Career Power
- 68
- share-weeks
- Crowns
- 0
- weeks crowned Author of the Week
- Peak Year
- 68
- February 1978 – May 1979
- Peak Five Years
- 68
- March 1974 – May 1979
- Top-five weeks
- 2
- weeks ranked 1–5
- Longevity
- 13
- weeks with chart power
- Dominance
- 8.34%
- week of Mar 4, 1979
- 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 · 68 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dress Gray | #5 | 13 | 67.7 |
At their peak
1978 in books →Lucian K. Truscott IV's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from February 1978 to May 1979. The most powerful authors over those weeks:
- 1James A. Michener392
- 2Herman Wouk349
- 3Sidney Sheldon316
- 4Robert Ludlum299
- 5J.R.R. Tolkien279
- 6Judith Krantz252
- 7Colleen McCullough197
- 8Richard Bach188
- 9Arthur Hailey171
- 10Belva Plain159
Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.
Their decade: the 1970s.