Authors · NYT Hardcover Fiction
Allen Drury
Charting Aug 16, 1959 → Aug 3, 1975 · 258 weeks with chart power
Honours
- Author of the Decade
Author of the Week
NYT Hardcover Fiction
42 crowns
19591975Longest reign 15 weeks (Oct 1959 – Jan 1960) · First crown Oct 1959
- Peak Power
- 13.94%
- week of Aug 14, 1960
- Career Power
- 2,658
- share-weeks
- Crowns
- 42
- weeks crowned Author of the Week
- Peak Year
- 708
- September 1959 – September 1960
- Peak Five Years
- 1,440
- March 1958 – April 1963
- Top-five weeks
- 198
- weeks ranked 1–5
- Longevity
- 258
- weeks with chart power
- Dominance
- 14.53%
- week of Oct 4, 1959
- Comebacks
- 5
- Nov 1962 · Nov 1966 · Nov 1968 · Apr 1971 · Jan 1974
Ranked by weekly Power Share, part of the ChartReign Power model — not the list's own positions. How it works →
Titles on the NYT Hardcover Fiction
7 books · 2,658 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Advise and Consent | #1 | 102 | 1,181.1 | ||
| Capable of Honor | #2 | 41 | 405.5 | ||
| Preserve and Protect | #2 | 28 | 265.0 | ||
| A Shade of Difference | #1 | 25 | 258.5 | ||
| Come Nineveh, Come Tyre | #2 | 26 | 238.7 | ||
| The Promise of Joy | #3 | 19 | 163.2 | ||
| The Throne of Saturn | #2 | 17 | 145.6 |
At their peak
1959 in books →Allen Drury's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from September 1959 to September 1960. The most powerful authors over those weeks:
- 1Allen Drury708
- 2James A. Michener546
- 3Taylor Caldwell312
- 4Leon Uris279
- 5Marcia Davenport228
- 6Morris L. West202
- 7Robert Ruark192
- 8Guiseppe di Lampedusa175
- 9John Hersey167
- 10Cameron Hawley142
Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.