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
- Weeks at #1
- 0
- weeks as the top author
- 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
- December 1989
| Kind | Trough began | Returned | Trough weeks | Longest absence | Prior peak | Return share |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| After absence | Apr 8, 1984 | Dec 24, 1989 | 298 | 295 | 3.52% | 1.35% |
Ranked by weekly Power Share, part of the ChartReign Power model — not the list's own positions (config version 4, Sep 22, 2026). 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 |