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Peter Gilman

Charting Jul 17, 1960Nov 13, 1960 · 18 weeks with chart power

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Peak Power
3.86%
week of Oct 30, 1960
Career Power
73
share-weeks
Crowns
0
weeks crowned Author of the Week
Peak Year
73
November 1959 – November 1960
Peak Five Years
73
November 1955 – November 1960
Top-five weeks
0
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
18
weeks with chart power
Dominance
6.32%
week of Oct 16, 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 · 73 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

1959 in books

Peter Gilman's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from November 1959 to November 1960. The most powerful authors over those weeks:

  1. 1Allen Drury695
  2. 2James A. Michener691
  3. 3Guiseppe di Lampedusa285
  4. 4Taylor Caldwell238
  5. 5Marcia Davenport230
  6. 6Irving Wallace202
  7. 7Robert Ruark189
  8. 8Morris L. West169
  9. 9John Hersey155
  10. 10Leon Uris147

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decade: the 1960s.