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Robert Lewis Taylor

Charting Apr 27, 1958Oct 22, 1961 · 40 weeks with chart power

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Peak Power
3.16%
week of Jul 27, 1958
Career Power
136
share-weeks
Crowns
0
weeks crowned Author of the Week
Peak Year
70
October 1960 – October 1961
Peak Five Years
136
October 1956 – October 1961
Top-five weeks
0
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
40
weeks with chart power
Dominance
6.32%
week of Jun 22, 1958
Comebacks
1
Jun 1961

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 · 136 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
A Journey to Matecumbe#82270.4
THE TRAVELS OF JAIMIE McPHEETERS#71865.3

At their peak

1960 in books

Robert Lewis Taylor's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from October 1960 to October 1961. The most powerful authors over those weeks:

  1. 1Harper Lee564
  2. 2James A. Michener465
  3. 3Irving Stone412
  4. 4Andre Schwarz-Bart373
  5. 5Allen Drury359
  6. 6Graham Greene191
  7. 7Leon Uris190
  8. 8Elizabeth Goudge158
  9. 9Edwin O'Connor157
  10. 10Helen MacInnes140

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decades: the 1950s, the 1960s.