Authors · NYT Hardcover Fiction
Sara Kasdan
Charting Aug 13, 1961 → Aug 13, 1961 · 1 weeks with chart power
- Peak Power
- 0.20%
- week of Aug 13, 1961
- Career Power
- 2
- share-weeks
- Crowns
- 0
- weeks crowned Author of the Week
- Peak Year
- 2
- August 1960 – August 1961
- Peak Five Years
- 2
- August 1956 – August 1961
- Top-five weeks
- 0
- weeks ranked 1–5
- Longevity
- 1
- weeks with chart power
- Dominance
- 1.82%
- week of Aug 13, 1961
- 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 · 2 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| So It Was Just a Simple Wedding | #16 | 1 | 1.8 |
At their peak
1960 in books →Sara Kasdan's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from August 1960 to August 1961. The most powerful authors over those weeks:
- 1James A. Michener600
- 2Harper Lee517
- 3Allen Drury486
- 4Andre Schwarz-Bart362
- 5Irving Stone267
- 6Guiseppe di Lampedusa203
- 7Graham Greene190
- 8Mary Ellen Chase185
- 9Elizabeth Goudge166
- 10Helen MacInnes140
Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.
Their decade: the 1960s.