Authors · NYT Hardcover Fiction
R.V. Cassill
Charting Jan 24, 1971 → Mar 7, 1971 · 4 weeks with chart power
- Peak Power
- 1.31%
- week of Mar 7, 1971
- Career Power
- 17
- share-weeks
- Crowns
- 0
- weeks crowned Author of the Week
- Peak Year
- 17
- March 1970 – March 1971
- Peak Five Years
- 17
- March 1966 – March 1971
- Top-five weeks
- 0
- weeks ranked 1–5
- Longevity
- 4
- weeks with chart power
- Dominance
- 4.79%
- week of Feb 14, 1971
- 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 · 17 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Doctor Cobb's Game | #9 | 4 | 17.3 |
At their peak
1970 in books →R.V. Cassill's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from March 1970 to March 1971. The most powerful authors over those weeks:
- 1Erich Segal718
- 2John Fowles398
- 3Mary Stewart349
- 4Taylor Caldwell310
- 5Ernest Hemingway240
- 6James Dickey233
- 7Gwen Bristow189
- 8Irwin Shaw179
- 9Elizabeth Goudge174
- 10Leon Uris156
Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.
Their decade: the 1970s.