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Robert H.K. Walter

Charting Jun 30, 1963Aug 4, 1963 · 4 weeks with chart power

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Peak Power
1.39%
week of Aug 4, 1963
Career Power
17
share-weeks
Crowns
0
weeks crowned Author of the Week
Peak Year
17
August 1962 – August 1963
Peak Five Years
17
July 1958 – August 1963
Top-five weeks
0
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
4
weeks with chart power
Dominance
4.17%
week of Jun 30, 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 →

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.

TitlePeakWeeksPower
Stacy Tower#10416.7

At their peak

1962 in books

Robert H.K. Walter's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from August 1962 to August 1963. The most powerful authors over those weeks:

  1. 1J.D. Salinger308
  2. 2Katherine Anne Porter291
  3. 3Charles W. Bailey II267
  4. 4Fletcher Knebel267
  5. 5Allen Drury259
  6. 6Richard McKenna255
  7. 7Anne Morrow Lindbergh230
  8. 8Daphne Du Maurier212
  9. 9John O'Hara192
  10. 10Irving Wallace186

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decade: the 1960s.