Authors · NYT Hardcover Fiction
Alec Waugh
Charting Aug 20, 1934 → Apr 3, 1960 · 31 weeks with chart power
- Peak Power
- 5.42%
- week of Apr 15, 1956
- Career Power
- 150
- share-weeks
- Crowns
- 0
- weeks crowned Author of the Week
- Peak Year
- 114
- June 1955 – June 1956
- Peak Five Years
- 145
- April 1955 – April 1960
- Top-five weeks
- 1
- weeks ranked 1–5
- Longevity
- 31
- weeks with chart power
- Dominance
- 8.34%
- week of Apr 8, 1956
- Comebacks
- 1
- Mar 1960
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 · 150 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Island in the Sun | #5 | 20 | 113.9 | ||
| Fuel for the Flame | #10 | 10 | 30.8 | ||
| The Balliois | #8 | 1 | 5.5 |
At their peak
1955 in books →Alec Waugh's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from June 1955 to June 1956. The most powerful authors over those weeks:
- 1Patrick Dennis538
- 2Herman Wouk405
- 3MacKinlay Kantor365
- 4Robert Ruark312
- 5Sloan Wilson305
- 6Francoise Sagan277
- 7John O'Hara261
- 8Edwin O'Connor198
- 9Cameron Hawley193
- 10Mac Hyman163
Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.