Authors · NYT Hardcover Fiction
Paul Horgan
Charting May 8, 1960 → Jul 31, 1960 · 12 weeks with chart power
- Peak Power
- 2.72%
- week of Jul 10, 1960
- Career Power
- 45
- share-weeks
- Crowns
- 0
- weeks crowned Author of the Week
- Peak Year
- 45
- August 1959 – July 1960
- Peak Five Years
- 45
- July 1955 – July 1960
- Top-five weeks
- 0
- weeks ranked 1–5
- Longevity
- 12
- weeks with chart power
- Dominance
- 5.50%
- week of May 15, 1960
- 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 · 45 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| A Distant Trumpet | #8 | 12 | 44.5 |
At their peak
1959 in books →Paul Horgan's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from August 1959 to July 1960. The most powerful authors over those weeks:
- 1Allen Drury666
- 2James A. Michener477
- 3Taylor Caldwell356
- 4Leon Uris352
- 5Marcia Davenport222
- 6Morris L. West202
- 7Robert Ruark192
- 8John Hersey167
- 9Cameron Hawley137
- 10John O'Hara136
Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.
Their decade: the 1960s.