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Al Morgan

Charting Sep 11, 1955Oct 30, 1955 · 6 weeks with chart power

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Peak Power
1.53%
week of Oct 30, 1955
Career Power
19
share-weeks
Crowns
0
weeks crowned Author of the Week
Peak Year
19
November 1954 – October 1955
Peak Five Years
19
November 1950 – October 1955
Top-five weeks
0
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
6
weeks with chart power
Dominance
4.17%
week of Oct 9, 1955
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 · 19 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 Great Man#10618.9

At their peak

1954 in books

Al Morgan's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from November 1954 to October 1955. The most powerful authors over those weeks:

  1. 1Mac Hyman437
  2. 2Hamilton Basso395
  3. 3Francoise Sagan385
  4. 4Irving Stone327
  5. 5Patrick Dennis295
  6. 6Robert Ruark294
  7. 7John Phillips Marquand256
  8. 8Anya Seton235
  9. 9Morton Thompson201
  10. 10Ernest Kellogg Gann146

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decade: the 1950s.