Authors · NYT Hardcover Fiction
Phyllis Whitney
Charting May 8, 1966 → Jul 3, 1966 · 8 weeks with chart power
- Peak Power
- 2.57%
- week of Jul 3, 1966
- Career Power
- 35
- share-weeks
- Crowns
- 0
- weeks crowned Author of the Week
- Peak Year
- 35
- June 1965 – July 1966
- Peak Five Years
- 35
- June 1961 – July 1966
- Top-five weeks
- 0
- weeks ranked 1–5
- Longevity
- 8
- weeks with chart power
- Dominance
- 5.50%
- week of Jun 12, 1966
- 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 · 35 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Columbella | #8 | 8 | 34.7 |
At their peak
1965 in books →Phyllis Whitney's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from June 1965 to July 1966. The most powerful authors over those weeks:
- 1James Michener720
- 2Bel Kaufman477
- 3Irving Stone349
- 4Arthur Hailey263
- 5Helen MacInnes235
- 6Robin Moore230
- 7Jacqueline Susann201
- 8Mary Stewart190
- 9Louis Auchincloss182
- 10Harold Robbins145
Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.
Their decade: the 1960s.