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Mark Rascovich

Charting May 19, 1963Aug 11, 1963 · 13 weeks with chart power

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Peak Power
3.83%
week of Aug 11, 1963
Career Power
63
share-weeks
Crowns
0
weeks crowned Author of the Week
Peak Year
63
August 1962 – August 1963
Peak Five Years
63
August 1958 – August 1963
Top-five weeks
0
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
13
weeks with chart power
Dominance
5.50%
week of Jun 16, 1963
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 · 63 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 Bedford Incident#81363.3

At their peak

1962 in books

Mark Rascovich's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from August 1962 to August 1963. The most powerful authors over those weeks:

  1. 1J.D. Salinger309
  2. 2Katherine Anne Porter276
  3. 3Charles W. Bailey II271
  4. 4Fletcher Knebel271
  5. 5Allen Drury259
  6. 6Richard McKenna255
  7. 7Daphne Du Maurier222
  8. 8Anne Morrow Lindbergh218
  9. 9John O'Hara201
  10. 10Irving Wallace179

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decade: the 1960s.