Authors · NYT Hardcover Fiction
Stephen Becker
Charting Feb 7, 1965 → Apr 18, 1965 · 10 weeks with chart power
- Peak Power
- 3.17%
- week of Apr 4, 1965
- Career Power
- 49
- share-weeks
- Crowns
- 0
- weeks crowned Author of the Week
- Peak Year
- 49
- April 1964 – April 1965
- Peak Five Years
- 49
- April 1960 – April 1965
- Top-five weeks
- 0
- weeks ranked 1–5
- Longevity
- 10
- weeks with chart power
- Dominance
- 7.26%
- week of Mar 7, 1965
- 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 · 49 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| A Covenant with Death | #6 | 10 | 49.2 |
At their peak
1964 in books →Stephen Becker's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from April 1964 to April 1965. The most powerful authors over those weeks:
- 1John le Carré488
- 2Saul Bellow391
- 3Louis Auchincloss385
- 4Leon Uris283
- 5Mary Stewart258
- 6Irving Wallace256
- 7Gore Vidal242
- 8Mason Hoffenberg158
- 9Terry Southern158
- 10Mary McCarthy143
Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.
Their decade: the 1960s.