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Stephen Birmingham

Charting Sep 25, 1983Mar 30, 1986 · 29 weeks with chart power

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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.

TitlePeakWeeksPower
The Auerbach Will#62185.8
The Lebaron Secret#7834.8

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:

  1. 1Stephen King477
  2. 2James A. Michener446
  3. 3Umberto Eco383
  4. 4John le Carré343
  5. 5Joan D. Vinge265
  6. 6Danielle Steel214
  7. 7Jackie Collins180
  8. 8Stephen R. Donaldson169
  9. 9Nora Ephron158
  10. 10Judith Rossner139

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decade: the 1980s.