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Phyllis A. Whitney portraitPhyllis A. Whitney

Charting Mar 11, 1973Apr 2, 1989 · 25 weeks with chart power

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Peak Power
4.04%
week of Jul 20, 1975
Career Power
102
share-weeks
Crowns
0
weeks crowned Author of the Week
Peak Year
65
July 1974 – July 1975
Peak Five Years
78
August 1970 – July 1975
Top-five weeks
1
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
25
weeks with chart power
Dominance
8.34%
week of Jun 1, 1975
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

7 books · 102 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
Spindrift#51265.4
Emerald#12511.8
Snowfire#1028.3
Rainsong#1337.2
The Turquoise Mask#1014.2
Dream of Orchids#1412.4
Rainbow in the Mist#1412.4

At their peak

1974 in books

Phyllis A. Whitney's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from July 1974 to July 1975. The most powerful authors over those weeks:

  1. 1James Michener619
  2. 2Nicholas Meyer369
  3. 3John le Carré362
  4. 4Joseph Heller299
  5. 5Frederick Forsyth277
  6. 6Richard Adams255
  7. 7Arthur Hailey232
  8. 8Harold Robbins214
  9. 9Peter Benchley202
  10. 10Thomas Tryon175

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decades: the 1970s, the 1980s.