Authors · NYT Hardcover Fiction
Reynolds Price
Charting May 6, 1962 → Aug 3, 1986 · 5 weeks with chart power
- Peak Power
- 0.80%
- week of May 27, 1962
- Career Power
- 11
- share-weeks
- Crowns
- 0
- weeks crowned Author of the Week
- Peak Year
- 9
- June 1961 – May 1962
- Peak Five Years
- 9
- May 1957 – May 1962
- Top-five weeks
- 0
- weeks ranked 1–5
- Longevity
- 5
- weeks with chart power
- Dominance
- 2.40%
- week of May 13, 1962
- 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
2 books · 11 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| A Long and Happy Life | #14 | 4 | 8.7 | ||
| Kate Vaiden | #15 | 1 | 2.1 |
At their peak
1961 in books →Reynolds Price's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from June 1961 to May 1962. The most powerful authors over those weeks:
- 1Irving Stone671
- 2Harper Lee535
- 3J.D. Salinger487
- 4Harold Robbins267
- 5Leon Uris251
- 6Edwin O'Connor192
- 7Taylor Caldwell190
- 8Edward Streeter170
- 9Patrick Dennis149
- 10Henry Miller146
Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.