Authors · NYT Hardcover Fiction
William Humphrey
Charting Mar 2, 1958 → May 2, 1965 · 16 weeks with chart power
- Peak Power
- 2.97%
- week of May 2, 1965
- Career Power
- 59
- share-weeks
- Crowns
- 0
- weeks crowned Author of the Week
- Peak Year
- 41
- May 1964 – May 1965
- Peak Five Years
- 41
- May 1960 – May 1965
- Top-five weeks
- 0
- weeks ranked 1–5
- Longevity
- 16
- weeks with chart power
- Dominance
- 6.32%
- week of Mar 7, 1965
- Comebacks
- 1
- Mar 1965, after 7 quiet years
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 · 59 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 Ordways | #7 | 8 | 40.9 | ||
| Home from the Hill | #13 | 8 | 18.3 |
At their peak
1964 in books →William Humphrey's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from May 1964 to May 1965. The most powerful authors over those weeks:
- 1John le Carré459
- 2Saul Bellow420
- 3Louis Auchincloss385
- 4Leon Uris283
- 5Irving Wallace268
- 6Mary Stewart258
- 7Gore Vidal242
- 8Mason Hoffenberg158
- 9Terry Southern158
- 10Ian Fleming143
Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.