Authors · NYT Hardcover Fiction
Margaret Craven
Charting Mar 3, 1974 → Jul 28, 1974 · 20 weeks with chart power
- Peak Power
- 4.75%
- week of Jun 16, 1974
- Career Power
- 108
- share-weeks
- Crowns
- 0
- weeks crowned Author of the Week
- Peak Year
- 108
- August 1973 – July 1974
- Peak Five Years
- 108
- August 1969 – July 1974
- Top-five weeks
- 0
- weeks ranked 1–5
- Longevity
- 20
- weeks with chart power
- Dominance
- 7.26%
- week of May 26, 1974
- 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 · 108 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| I Heard the Owl Call My Name | #6 | 20 | 107.7 |
At their peak
1973 in books →Margaret Craven's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from August 1973 to July 1974. The most powerful authors over those weeks:
- 1Gore Vidal443
- 2Mary Stewart369
- 3Graham Greene296
- 4Peter Benchley244
- 5Allen Drury239
- 6Richard Adams221
- 7Helen MacInnes192
- 8Kurt Vonnegut192
- 9Paul Emil Erdman189
- 10Jacqueline Susann162
Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.
Their decade: the 1970s.