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Marquis William Childs

Charting Nov 12, 1961 → Dec 24, 1961 · 5 weeks with chart power

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Peak Power
0.83%
week of Dec 24, 1961
Career Power
11
share-weeks
Crowns
0
weeks crowned Author of the Week
Peak Year
11
January 1961 – December 1961
Peak Five Years
11
December 1956 – December 1961
Top-five weeks
0
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
5
weeks with chart power
Dominance
2.75%
week of Dec 24, 1961
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 · 11 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 Peacemakers#13510.8

At their peak

1961 in books →

Marquis William Childs's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from January 1961 to December 1961. The most powerful authors over those weeks:

  1. 1Harper Lee571
  2. 2Irving Stone526
  3. 3Andre Schwarz-Bart348
  4. 4James A. Michener336
  5. 5Allen Drury244
  6. 6Leon Uris240
  7. 7Harold Robbins211
  8. 8Graham Greene191
  9. 9Edwin O'Connor186
  10. 10J.D. Salinger177

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decade: the 1960s.