Authors · NYT Hardcover Fiction
Thomas Tryon
Charting Jun 20, 1971 → Oct 10, 1976 · 80 weeks with chart power
- Peak Power
- 9.38%
- week of Oct 17, 1971
- Career Power
- 628
- share-weeks
- Crowns
- 0
- weeks crowned Author of the Week
- Peak Year
- 225
- December 1970 – November 1971
- Peak Five Years
- 535
- May 1970 – May 1975
- Top-five weeks
- 39
- weeks ranked 1–5
- Longevity
- 80
- weeks with chart power
- Dominance
- 12.64%
- week of Aug 15, 1971
- Comebacks
- 3
- Aug 1973 · Feb 1975 · Aug 1976
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
4 books · 628 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 Other | #2 | 24 | 224.9 | ||
| Lady | #3 | 24 | 174.9 | ||
| Harvest Home | #4 | 18 | 135.2 | ||
| Crowned Heads | #5 | 14 | 93.3 |
At their peak
1970 in books →Thomas Tryon's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from December 1970 to November 1971. The most powerful authors over those weeks:
- 1Leon Uris434
- 2Irving Stone351
- 3William Peter Blatty305
- 4Joseph Wambaugh261
- 5Erich Segal257
- 6Thomas Tryon225
- 7Irwin Shaw194
- 8Agatha Christie186
- 9Ernest Hemingway182
- 10Victoria Holt173
Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.
Their decade: the 1970s.