Authors · NYT Hardcover Fiction
William Kennedy
Charting Jun 19, 1988 → Jun 26, 1988 · 2 weeks with chart power
- Peak Power
- 0.49%
- week of Jun 26, 1988
- Career Power
- 5
- share-weeks
- Crowns
- 0
- weeks crowned Author of the Week
- Peak Year
- 5
- July 1987 – June 1988
- Peak Five Years
- 5
- July 1983 – June 1988
- Top-five weeks
- 0
- weeks ranked 1–5
- Longevity
- 2
- weeks with chart power
- Dominance
- 2.75%
- week of Jun 19, 1988
- 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 · 5 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Quinn's Book | #13 | 2 | 4.8 |
At their peak
1987 in books →William Kennedy's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from July 1987 to June 1988. The most powerful authors over those weeks:
- 1Scott Turow458
- 2Stephen King447
- 3Danielle Steel419
- 4Tom Wolfe389
- 5Tom Clancy342
- 6Robert Ludlum203
- 7Garrison Keillor175
- 8Toni Morrison156
- 9John Jakes133
- 10Edward Rutherfurd133
Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.
Their decade: the 1980s.