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Anya Seton portraitAnya Seton

Charting Feb 24, 1946Jun 10, 1973 · 147 weeks with chart power

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Peak Power
10.67%
week of Jul 20, 1958
Career Power
1,052
share-weeks
Crowns
0
weeks crowned Author of the Week
Peak Year
296
October 1957 – October 1958
Peak Five Years
552
October 1953 – October 1958
Top-five weeks
58
weeks ranked 1–5
Longevity
147
weeks with chart power
Dominance
12.64%
week of Nov 21, 1954
Comebacks
6
Jan 1949 · Feb 1951 · Oct 1954 · Mar 1958 · Apr 1962 · Feb 1973, after 10 quiet years

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

7 books · 1,052 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
The Winthrop Woman#231296.5
Katherine#229255.2
Green Darkness#325197.5
Devil Water#425137.5
The Hearth and Eagle#71460.0
Foxfire#61356.5
The Turquoise#71048.7

At their peak

1957 in books

Anya Seton's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from October 1957 to October 1958. The most powerful authors over those weeks:

  1. 1Robert Traver505
  2. 2James Gould Cozzens422
  3. 3Anya Seton297
  4. 4Edna Ferber266
  5. 5Thomas B. Costain227
  6. 6Ayn Rand171
  7. 7Nevil Shute162
  8. 8Jerome Weidman159
  9. 9Helen MacInnes154
  10. 10Myron S. Kaufmann133

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decades: the 1940s, the 1950s, the 1960s, the 1970s.