Authors · NYT Hardcover Fiction
Rosalind Erskine
Charting Dec 9, 1962 → Feb 3, 1963 · 7 weeks with chart power
- Peak Power
- 1.27%
- week of Feb 3, 1963
- Career Power
- 17
- share-weeks
- Crowns
- 0
- weeks crowned Author of the Week
- Peak Year
- 17
- February 1962 – February 1963
- Peak Five Years
- 17
- January 1958 – February 1963
- Top-five weeks
- 0
- weeks ranked 1–5
- Longevity
- 7
- weeks with chart power
- Dominance
- 2.75%
- week of Dec 23, 1962
- 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.
| Title | Peak | Weeks | On chart | Power contributedPower | Book Power |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| The Passion Flower Hotel | #13 | 7 | 16.6 |
At their peak
1962 in books →Rosalind Erskine's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from February 1962 to February 1963. The most powerful authors over those weeks:
- 1Katherine Anne Porter497
- 2J.D. Salinger354
- 3Irving Stone303
- 4Anne Morrow Lindbergh291
- 5Herman Wouk250
- 6Irving Wallace221
- 7Allen Drury202
- 8Mary Renault197
- 9William Faulkner165
- 10Richard Hughes159
Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.
Their decade: the 1960s.