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Marilyn Durham portraitMarilyn Durham

Charting Nov 12, 1972Nov 12, 1972 · 1 weeks with chart power

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Peak Power
0.52%
week of Nov 12, 1972
Career Power
5
share-weeks
Crowns
0
weeks crowned Author of the Week
Peak Year
5
November 1971 – November 1972
Peak Five Years
5
November 1967 – November 1972
Top-five weeks
0
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
1
weeks with chart power
Dominance
4.79%
week of Nov 12, 1972
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 · 5 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 Man Who Loved Cat Dancing#914.8

At their peak

1971 in books

Marilyn Durham's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from November 1971 to November 1972. The most powerful authors over those weeks:

  1. 1Herman Wouk644
  2. 2Richard Bach362
  3. 3Arthur Hailey313
  4. 4Irving Wallace308
  5. 5William Peter Blatty299
  6. 6Frederick Forsyth286
  7. 7Taylor Caldwell281
  8. 8Chaim Potok208
  9. 9Helen MacInnes164
  10. 10John Updike129

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decade: the 1970s.