Authors · NYT Hardcover Fiction
Richard McKenna
Charting Jan 20, 1963 → Aug 4, 1963 · 29 weeks with chart power
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Honours
Author of the Week
NYT Hardcover Fiction
4 crowns
19631963Longest reign 4 weeks (Feb–Mar 1963) · First crown Feb 1963
- Peak Power
- 8.84%
- week of May 12, 1963
- Career Power
- 255
- share-weeks
- Crowns
- 4
- weeks crowned Author of the Week
- Peak Year
- 255
- August 1962 – August 1963
- Peak Five Years
- 255
- July 1958 – August 1963
- Top-five weeks
- 21
- weeks ranked 1–5
- Longevity
- 29
- weeks with chart power
- Dominance
- 12.64%
- week of Mar 3, 1963
- Comebacks
- 0
- none detected
Ranked by weekly Power Share, part of the ChartReign Power model — not the list's own positions. How it works →
Titles on the NYT Hardcover Fiction
1 book · 255 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| The Sand Pebbles | #2 | 29 | 254.8 |
At their peak
1962 in books →Richard McKenna's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from August 1962 to August 1963. The most powerful authors over those weeks:
- 1J.D. Salinger308
- 2Katherine Anne Porter291
- 3Charles W. Bailey II267
- 4Fletcher Knebel267
- 5Allen Drury259
- 6Richard McKenna255
- 7Anne Morrow Lindbergh230
- 8Daphne Du Maurier212
- 9John O'Hara192
- 10Irving Wallace186
Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.
Their decade: the 1960s.