Authors · NYT Hardcover Fiction
Angus Wilson
Charting Oct 19, 1952 → May 31, 1959 · 23 weeks with chart power
- Peak Power
- 1.87%
- week of Jan 13, 1957
- Career Power
- 59
- share-weeks
- Crowns
- 0
- weeks crowned Author of the Week
- Peak Year
- 34
- February 1956 – January 1957
- Peak Five Years
- 52
- May 1954 – May 1959
- Top-five weeks
- 0
- weeks ranked 1–5
- Longevity
- 23
- weeks with chart power
- Dominance
- 3.63%
- week of Nov 4, 1956
- Comebacks
- 1
- May 1959
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 · 59 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Anglo-Saxon Attitudes | #11 | 13 | 33.5 | ||
| The Middle Age of Mrs. Eliot | #11 | 7 | 18.3 | ||
| Hemlock and After | #12 | 3 | 7.3 |
At their peak
1956 in books →Angus Wilson's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from February 1956 to January 1957. The most powerful authors over those weeks:
- 1Edwin O'Connor568
- 2Patrick Dennis404
- 3MacKinlay Kantor380
- 4William Brinkley362
- 5John O'Hara226
- 6Grace Metalious219
- 7Simone de Beauvoir212
- 8Pearl S. Buck186
- 9A. J. Cronin173
- 10Francoise Sagan166
Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.
Their decade: the 1950s.