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Mason Hoffenberg portraitMason Hoffenberg

Charting May 31, 1964Jan 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.

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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:

  1. 1John le Carré640
  2. 2Louis Auchincloss312
  3. 3Mary McCarthy286
  4. 4Leon Uris279
  5. 5Gore Vidal242
  6. 6Saul Bellow232
  7. 7Mary Stewart219
  8. 8Ian Fleming165
  9. 9John Cheever162
  10. 10Mason Hoffenberg158

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decade: the 1960s.