Authors · NYT Hardcover Fiction
Shirley Hazzard
Charting May 4, 1980 → May 4, 1980 · 1 weeks with chart power
- Peak Power
- 0.26%
- week of May 4, 1980
- Career Power
- 2
- share-weeks
- Crowns
- 0
- weeks crowned Author of the Week
- Peak Year
- 2
- May 1979 – May 1980
- Peak Five Years
- 2
- February 1975 – May 1980
- Top-five weeks
- 0
- weeks ranked 1–5
- Longevity
- 1
- weeks with chart power
- Dominance
- 2.40%
- week of May 4, 1980
- 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| The Transit of Venus | #14 | 1 | 2.4 |
At their peak
1979 in books →Shirley Hazzard's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from May 1979 to May 1980. The most powerful authors over those weeks:
- 1Robert Ludlum446
- 2William Styron381
- 3Kurt Vonnegut304
- 4Ken Follett291
- 5Mary Stewart258
- 6General Sir John Hackett233
- 7Howard Fast215
- 8Stephen King213
- 9John le Carré212
- 10Herman Wouk183
Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.
Their decade: the 1980s.