Authors · NYT Hardcover Fiction
Alberto Moravia
Charting Nov 27, 1949 → Jul 13, 1958 · 31 weeks with chart power
- Peak Power
- 4.59%
- week of Feb 5, 1950
- Career Power
- 147
- share-weeks
- Crowns
- 0
- weeks crowned Author of the Week
- Peak Year
- 137
- October 1949 – October 1950
- Peak Five Years
- 141
- September 1947 – September 1952
- Top-five weeks
- 2
- weeks ranked 1–5
- Longevity
- 31
- weeks with chart power
- Dominance
- 8.34%
- week of Dec 11, 1949
- 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
4 books · 147 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 Woman of Rome | #5 | 15 | 84.5 | ||
| Two Adolescents | #6 | 11 | 52.7 | ||
| Two Women | #15 | 3 | 6.0 | ||
| The Fancy Dress Party | #15 | 2 | 3.9 |
At their peak
1949 in books →Alberto Moravia's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from October 1949 to October 1950. The most powerful authors over those weeks:
- 1Mika Waltari515
- 2Henry Morton Robinson407
- 3John Hersey349
- 4Gwen Bristow309
- 5Sholem Asch253
- 6John O'Hara217
- 7Daphne Du Maurier201
- 8Kathleen Winsor171
- 9Robert Penn Warren168
- 10Samuel Shellabarger151
Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.