Authors · NYT Hardcover Fiction
Stephen Birmingham
Charting Sep 25, 1983 → Mar 30, 1986 · 29 weeks with chart power
- Peak Power
- 3.75%
- week of Dec 4, 1983
- Career Power
- 121
- share-weeks
- Crowns
- 0
- weeks crowned Author of the Week
- Peak Year
- 86
- February 1983 – February 1984
- Peak Five Years
- 121
- April 1981 – March 1986
- Top-five weeks
- 0
- weeks ranked 1–5
- Longevity
- 29
- weeks with chart power
- Dominance
- 7.33%
- week of Nov 13, 1983
- Comebacks
- 1
- Feb 1986
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 · 121 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 Auerbach Will | #6 | 21 | 85.8 | ||
| The Lebaron Secret | #7 | 8 | 34.8 |
At their peak
1983 in books →Stephen Birmingham's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from February 1983 to February 1984. The most powerful authors over those weeks:
- 1Stephen King477
- 2James A. Michener446
- 3Umberto Eco383
- 4John le Carré343
- 5Joan D. Vinge265
- 6Danielle Steel214
- 7Jackie Collins180
- 8Stephen R. Donaldson169
- 9Nora Ephron158
- 10Judith Rossner139
Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.
Their decade: the 1980s.