Authors · NYT Hardcover Fiction
Mason Hoffenberg
Charting May 31, 1964 → Jan 31, 1965 · 35 weeks with chart power
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- Peak Power
- 4.86%
- week of Oct 18, 1964
- Career Power
- 158
- share-weeks
- Crowns
- 0
- weeks crowned Author of the Week
- Peak Year
- 158
- February 1964 – January 1965
- Peak Five Years
- 158
- January 1960 – January 1965
- Top-five weeks
- 0
- weeks ranked 1–5
- Longevity
- 35
- weeks with chart power
- Dominance
- 6.32%
- week of Sep 13, 1964
- 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 · 158 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Candywith Terry Southern | #2 | 35 | 158.1 |
At their peak
1964 in books →Mason Hoffenberg's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from February 1964 to January 1965. The most powerful authors over those weeks:
- 1John le Carré640
- 2Louis Auchincloss312
- 3Mary McCarthy286
- 4Leon Uris279
- 5Gore Vidal242
- 6Saul Bellow232
- 7Mary Stewart219
- 8Ian Fleming165
- 9John Cheever162
- 10Mason Hoffenberg158
Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.
Their decade: the 1960s.