Authors · NYT Hardcover Fiction

Morris West

Charting May 2, 1965 → Aug 21, 1983 · 90 weeks with chart power

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Peak Power: 8.53%; week of Jul 25, 1965
Career Power: 551; share-weeks
Crowns: 0; weeks crowned Author of the Week

Peak Year: 190; September 1964 – September 1965
Peak Five Years: 313; June 1963 – June 1968
Top-five weeks: 23; weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity: 90; weeks with chart power
Dominance: 12.64%; week of May 30, 1965
Comebacks: 3; Mar 1968 · Dec 1974, after 6 quiet years · Aug 1981, after 6 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

8 books · 551 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 Ambassador	#2May 1965	21	May 1965 – September 1965	189.8	189.8
The Tower of Babel	#3March 1968	17	February 1968 – June 1968	123.0	123.0
Harlequin	#7December 1974	20	October 1974 – April 1975	111.5	111.5
The Clowns of God	#5August 1981	14	July 1981 – November 1981	59.7	59.7
Proteus	#8March 1979	9	February 1979 – April 1979	34.3	34.3
The Navigator	#9November 1976	4	October 1976 – November 1976	17.9	17.9
The World Is Made of Glass	#13July 1983	4	July 1983 – August 1983	11.0	11.0
Summer of the Red Wolf	#10October 1971	1	October 1971	4.2	4.2

At their peak

1964 in books →

Morris West's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from September 1964 to September 1965. The most powerful authors over those weeks:

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decades: the 1960s, the 1970s, the 1980s.