Authors · NYT Hardcover Fiction
Mark Helprin
Charting Sep 25, 1983 → Oct 21, 2012 · 33 weeks with chart power
- Peak Power
- 3.52%
- week of Nov 27, 1983
- Career Power
- 111
- share-weeks
- Crowns
- 0
- weeks crowned Author of the Week
- Peak Year
- 72
- February 1983 – January 1984
- Peak Five Years
- 72
- February 1979 – January 1984
- Top-five weeks
- 0
- weeks ranked 1–5
- Longevity
- 33
- weeks with chart power
- Dominance
- 7.26%
- week of Oct 16, 1983
- Comebacks
- 1
- Dec 1989, after 6 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
4 books · 111 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Winter's Tale | #6 | 19 | 72.1 | ||
| Swan Lake | #8 | 7 | 23.3 | ||
| A Soldier of the Great War | #14 | 6 | 13.2 | ||
| In Sunlight and in Shadow | #15 | 1 | 2.1 |
At their peak
1983 in books →Mark Helprin's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from February 1983 to January 1984. The most powerful authors over those weeks:
- 1Stephen King456
- 2James A. Michener453
- 3Umberto Eco364
- 4John le Carré343
- 5Joan D. Vinge265
- 6Danielle Steel211
- 7Jackie Collins175
- 8Stephen R. Donaldson169
- 9Nora Ephron158
- 10Judith Rossner139
Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.