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Phyllis Whitney

Charting May 8, 1966Jul 3, 1966 · 8 weeks with chart power

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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.

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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:

  1. 1James Michener720
  2. 2Bel Kaufman477
  3. 3Irving Stone349
  4. 4Arthur Hailey263
  5. 5Helen MacInnes235
  6. 6Robin Moore230
  7. 7Jacqueline Susann201
  8. 8Mary Stewart190
  9. 9Louis Auchincloss182
  10. 10Harold Robbins145

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decade: the 1960s.