Authors · NYT Hardcover Fiction
Paul Emil Erdman
Charting Aug 5, 1973 → Jan 13, 1974 · 23 weeks with chart power
- Peak Power
- 8.57%
- week of Nov 25, 1973
- Career Power
- 189
- share-weeks
- Crowns
- 0
- weeks crowned Author of the Week
- Peak Year
- 189
- January 1973 – January 1974
- Peak Five Years
- 189
- January 1969 – January 1974
- Top-five weeks
- 12
- weeks ranked 1–5
- Longevity
- 23
- weeks with chart power
- Dominance
- 11.01%
- week of Sep 30, 1973
- 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 · 189 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 Billion Dollar Sure Thing | #3 | 23 | 188.6 |
At their peak
1973 in books →Paul Emil Erdman's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from January 1973 to January 1974. The most powerful authors over those weeks:
- 1Frederick Forsyth396
- 2Jacqueline Susann378
- 3Richard Bach348
- 4Kurt Vonnegut328
- 5Mary Stewart325
- 6Paul Emil Erdman189
- 7Graham Greene177
- 8Anya Seton176
- 9Tom Wicker153
- 10Dan Jenkins141
Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.
Their decade: the 1970s.