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Anthony West

Charting Oct 23, 1955 → Dec 18, 1955 · 7 weeks with chart power

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Peak Power
1.37%
week of Dec 4, 1955
Career Power
18
share-weeks
Crowns
0
weeks crowned Author of the Week
Peak Year
18
December 1954 – December 1955
Peak Five Years
18
December 1950 – December 1955
Top-five weeks
0
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
7
weeks with chart power
Dominance
3.63%
week of Oct 30, 1955
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 · 18 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.

TitlePeakWeeksPower
Heritage#11718.5

At their peak

1954 in books →

Anthony West's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from December 1954 to December 1955. The most powerful authors over those weeks:

  1. 1Francoise Sagan411
  2. 2Mac Hyman390
  3. 3Patrick Dennis380
  4. 4Robert Ruark338
  5. 5Hamilton Basso325
  6. 6John Phillips Marquand256
  7. 7Irving Stone225
  8. 8Sloan Wilson196
  9. 9Herman Wouk194
  10. 10Anya Seton156

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decade: the 1950s.