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Richard Frede

Charting Jun 19, 1960Sep 4, 1960 · 8 weeks with chart power

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Peak Power
0.98%
week of Jul 31, 1960
Career Power
16
share-weeks
Crowns
0
weeks crowned Author of the Week
Peak Year
16
September 1959 – September 1960
Peak Five Years
16
September 1955 – September 1960
Top-five weeks
0
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
8
weeks with chart power
Dominance
2.40%
week of Jul 31, 1960
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 · 16 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
The Interns#14816.2

At their peak

1959 in books

Richard Frede's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from September 1959 to September 1960. The most powerful authors over those weeks:

  1. 1Allen Drury708
  2. 2James A. Michener546
  3. 3Taylor Caldwell312
  4. 4Leon Uris279
  5. 5Marcia Davenport228
  6. 6Morris L. West202
  7. 7Robert Ruark192
  8. 8Guiseppe di Lampedusa175
  9. 9John Hersey167
  10. 10Cameron Hawley142

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decade: the 1960s.