Authors · NYT Hardcover Fiction
Marvin Kalb
Charting Jan 15, 1978 → Jan 15, 1978 · 1 weeks with chart power
- Peak Power
- 0.15%
- week of Jan 15, 1978
- Career Power
- 1
- share-weeks
- Crowns
- 0
- weeks crowned Author of the Week
- Peak Year
- 1
- January 1977 – January 1978
- Peak Five Years
- 1
- January 1973 – January 1978
- Top-five weeks
- 0
- weeks ranked 1–5
- Longevity
- 1
- weeks with chart power
- Dominance
- 1.38%
- week of Jan 15, 1978
- 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 · 1 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| In the National Interestwith Ted Koppel | #13 | 1 | 1.4 |
At their peak
1977 in books →Marvin Kalb's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from January 1977 to January 1978. The most powerful authors over those weeks:
- 1Colleen McCullough453
- 2Paul E. Erdman412
- 3Leon Uris338
- 4Erich Segal301
- 5Richard Bach276
- 6John Cheever253
- 7J.R.R. Tolkien247
- 8John D. MacDonald170
- 9Clive Cussler160
- 10John le Carré151
Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.
Their decade: the 1970s.