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Nora Ephron portraitNora Ephron

Charting May 1, 1983Nov 13, 1983 · 29 weeks with chart power

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Peak Power
6.48%
week of Aug 7, 1983
Career Power
158
share-weeks
Crowns
0
weeks crowned Author of the Week
Peak Year
158
November 1982 – November 1983
Peak Five Years
158
November 1978 – November 1983
Top-five weeks
9
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
29
weeks with chart power
Dominance
11.01%
week of Jun 5, 1983
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.

TitlePeakWeeksPower
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At their peak

1982 in books

Nora Ephron's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from November 1982 to November 1983. The most powerful authors over those weeks:

  1. 1James A. Michener470
  2. 2Stephen King357
  3. 3John le Carré343
  4. 4Umberto Eco247
  5. 5Joan D. Vinge228
  6. 6Jean M. Auel215
  7. 7Arthur C. Clarke214
  8. 8Judith Krantz210
  9. 9Sidney Sheldon202
  10. 10Danielle Steel185

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decade: the 1980s.