Authors · NYT Hardcover Fiction
Arthur Gordon
Charting Sep 10, 1950 → Oct 15, 1950 · 5 weeks with chart power
- Peak Power
- 0.83%
- week of Oct 15, 1950
- Career Power
- 10
- share-weeks
- Crowns
- 0
- weeks crowned Author of the Week
- Peak Year
- 10
- October 1949 – October 1950
- Peak Five Years
- 10
- October 1945 – October 1950
- Top-five weeks
- 0
- weeks ranked 1–5
- Longevity
- 5
- weeks with chart power
- Dominance
- 2.75%
- week of Oct 1, 1950
- 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 · 10 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Reprisal | #13 | 5 | 10.3 |
At their peak
1949 in books →Arthur Gordon's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from October 1949 to October 1950. The most powerful authors over those weeks:
- 1Mika Waltari516
- 2Henry Morton Robinson394
- 3John Hersey345
- 4Gwen Bristow303
- 5Sholem Asch258
- 6John O'Hara231
- 7Daphne Du Maurier201
- 8Kathleen Winsor171
- 9Robert Penn Warren163
- 10Samuel Shellabarger151
Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.
Their decade: the 1950s.