Authors · NYT Hardcover Fiction
Patrick White
Charting Sep 4, 1955 → Apr 7, 1974 · 8 weeks with chart power
- Peak Power
- 2.41%
- week of Apr 7, 1974
- Career Power
- 36
- share-weeks
- Crowns
- 0
- weeks crowned Author of the Week
- Peak Year
- 30
- April 1973 – April 1974
- Peak Five Years
- 30
- April 1969 – April 1974
- Top-five weeks
- 1
- weeks ranked 1–5
- Longevity
- 8
- weeks with chart power
- Dominance
- 9.58%
- week of Mar 17, 1974
- 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
2 books · 36 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 Eye of the Storm | #4 | 5 | 29.8 | ||
| The Tree of Man | #15 | 3 | 6.0 |
At their peak
1973 in books →Patrick White's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from April 1973 to April 1974. The most powerful authors over those weeks:
- 1Mary Stewart387
- 2Jacqueline Susann371
- 3Kurt Vonnegut328
- 4Gore Vidal295
- 5Graham Greene289
- 6Frederick Forsyth238
- 7Allen Drury203
- 8Paul Emil Erdman189
- 9Richard Bach179
- 10Thornton Wilder158
Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.