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Robert Crichton

Charting Sep 18, 1966Apr 22, 1973 · 68 weeks with chart power

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Author of the Week

  • NYT Hardcover Fiction

    18 crowns

    19661973

    Longest reign 18 weeks (Nov 1966 – Mar 1967) · First crown Nov 1966

Peak Power
13.61%
week of Mar 19, 1967
Career Power
680
share-weeks
Crowns
18
weeks crowned Author of the Week
Peak Year
541
August 1966 – August 1967
Peak Five Years
541
July 1962 – August 1967
Top-five weeks
42
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
68
weeks with chart power
Dominance
14.53%
week of Nov 20, 1966
Comebacks
1
Jan 1973, after 5 quiet years

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 · 680 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 Secret of Santa Vittoria#147541.1
The Camerons#521139.3

At their peak

1966 in books

Robert Crichton's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from August 1966 to August 1967. The most powerful authors over those weeks:

  1. 1Robert Crichton541
  2. 2Jacqueline Susann476
  3. 3Allen Drury406
  4. 4Elia Kazan333
  5. 5James Clavell267
  6. 6Thornton Wilder225
  7. 7Rebecca West212
  8. 8Harold Robbins177
  9. 9Mary Renault162
  10. 10Edwin O'Connor154

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decades: the 1960s, the 1970s.