Authors · NYT Hardcover Fiction
Vita Sackville-West
Charting May 28, 1961 → May 28, 1961 · 1 weeks with chart power
- Peak Power
- 0.20%
- week of May 28, 1961
- Career Power
- 2
- share-weeks
- Crowns
- 0
- weeks crowned Author of the Week
- Peak Year
- 2
- June 1960 – May 1961
- Peak Five Years
- 2
- May 1956 – May 1961
- Top-five weeks
- 0
- weeks ranked 1–5
- Longevity
- 1
- weeks with chart power
- Dominance
- 1.82%
- week of May 28, 1961
- 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| No Signposts in the Sea | #16 | 1 | 1.8 |
At their peak
1960 in books →Vita Sackville-West's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from June 1960 to May 1961. The most powerful authors over those weeks:
- 1James A. Michener688
- 2Allen Drury623
- 3Harper Lee385
- 4Guiseppe di Lampedusa326
- 5Andre Schwarz-Bart280
- 6Mary Ellen Chase217
- 7Irving Wallace213
- 8Elizabeth Goudge166
- 9John O'Hara150
- 10Helen MacInnes140
Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.
Their decade: the 1960s.