Authors · NYT Hardcover Fiction
Mark Rascovich
Charting May 19, 1963 → Aug 11, 1963 · 13 weeks with chart power
- 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.
| Title | Peak | Weeks | On chart | Power contributedPower | Book Power |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| The Bedford Incident | #8 | 13 | 63.3 |
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:
- 1J.D. Salinger309
- 2Katherine Anne Porter276
- 3Charles W. Bailey II271
- 4Fletcher Knebel271
- 5Allen Drury259
- 6Richard McKenna255
- 7Daphne Du Maurier222
- 8Anne Morrow Lindbergh218
- 9John O'Hara201
- 10Irving Wallace179
Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.
Their decade: the 1960s.