Authors · NYT Hardcover Fiction

Morris West

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

Peak Power: 8.53%; week of Jul 25, 1965
Career Power: 551; share-weeks
Weeks at #1: 0; weeks as the top author

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; March 1968, December 1974, August 1981

Comebacks (thresholds from `config/scoring.json`)
Kind	Trough began	Returned	Trough weeks	Longest absence	Prior peak	Return share
After absence	Dec 19, 1965	Mar 24, 1968	118	114	8.53%	3.43%
After absence	Aug 18, 1968	Dec 29, 1974	332	166	8.53%	3.27%
After absence	May 18, 1975	Aug 30, 1981	315	116	8.53%	3.12%

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