Authors · NYT Hardcover Fiction
Alan Paton
Charting Feb 29, 1948 → May 21, 1961 · 48 weeks with chart power
- Peak Power
- 7.57%
- week of Nov 22, 1953
- Career Power
- 220
- share-weeks
- Crowns
- 0
- weeks crowned Author of the Week
- Peak Year
- 157
- February 1953 – February 1954
- Peak Five Years
- 171
- February 1949 – January 1954
- Top-five weeks
- 10
- weeks ranked 1–5
- Longevity
- 48
- weeks with chart power
- Dominance
- 12.64%
- week of Oct 18, 1953
- Comebacks
- 2
- Jan 1950 · Sep 1953
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
3 books · 220 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Too Late the Phalarope | #2 | 22 | 157.1 | ||
| Cry, the Beloved Country | #11 | 25 | 60.6 | ||
| Tales from a Troubled Land | #16 | 1 | 1.8 |
At their peak
1953 in books →Alan Paton's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from February 1953 to February 1954. The most powerful authors over those weeks:
- 1Annemarie Selinko619
- 2Thomas B. Costain361
- 3Leon Uris342
- 4Ernest K. Gann330
- 5A. J. Cronin322
- 6James Hilton210
- 7Francis Van Wyck Mason187
- 8Frances Parkinson Keyes171
- 9Samuel Shellabarger167
- 10John Steinbeck160
Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.