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Morris L. West

Charting Oct 4, 1959 → Feb 24, 1974 · 125 weeks with chart power

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Honours

Author of the Year: 1963

Author of the Week

NYT Hardcover Fiction
14 crowns
19591974
Longest reign 14 weeks (Jun–Sep 1963) · First crown Jun 1963

Peak Power: 12.52%; week of Dec 22, 1963
Career Power: 957; share-weeks
Crowns: 14; weeks crowned Author of the Week

Peak Year: 495; April 1963 – April 1964
Peak Five Years: 814; April 1959 – April 1964
Top-five weeks: 48; weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity: 125; weeks with chart power
Dominance: 14.53%; week of Jun 30, 1963
Comebacks: 2; Jan 1962 · Nov 1973, after 9 quiet years

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

4 books · 957 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 Shoes of the Fisherman	#1June 1963	43	June 1963 – April 1964	494.7	494.7
The Devil's Advocate	#4March 1960	38	October 1959 – July 1960	202.4	202.4
The Salamander	#5November 1973	23	September 1973 – February 1974	143.2	143.2
Daughter of Silence	#5February 1962	21	December 1961 – April 1962	117.2	117.2

At their peak

1963 in books →

Morris L. West's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from April 1963 to April 1964. The most powerful authors over those weeks:

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decades: the 1950s, the 1960s, the 1970s.