Authors · NYT Hardcover Fiction
Alan Ross
Charting Jun 9, 1957 → Jun 9, 1957 · 1 weeks with chart power
- Peak Power
- 0.20%
- week of Jun 9, 1957
- Career Power
- 2
- share-weeks
- Crowns
- 0
- weeks crowned Author of the Week
- Peak Year
- 2
- June 1956 – June 1957
- Peak Five Years
- 2
- June 1952 – June 1957
- Top-five weeks
- 0
- weeks ranked 1–5
- Longevity
- 1
- weeks with chart power
- Dominance
- 1.82%
- week of Jun 9, 1957
- 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| The Complete Works of Nathanael West | #16 | 1 | 1.8 |
At their peak
1956 in books →Alan Ross's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from June 1956 to June 1957. The most powerful authors over those weeks:
- 1Grace Metalious472
- 2William Brinkley429
- 3Edwin O'Connor369
- 4Patrick Dennis294
- 5Meyer Levin286
- 6Simone de Beauvoir209
- 7Daphne Du Maurier197
- 8A. J. Cronin168
- 9Francoise Sagan166
- 10Frances Parkinson Keyes165
Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.
Their decade: the 1950s.