Authors · NYT Hardcover Fiction
Bernard Dryer
Charting Jul 6, 1958 → Nov 23, 1958 · 20 weeks with chart power
- Peak Power
- 5.59%
- week of Sep 28, 1958
- Career Power
- 113
- share-weeks
- Crowns
- 0
- weeks crowned Author of the Week
- Peak Year
- 113
- December 1957 – November 1958
- Peak Five Years
- 113
- November 1953 – November 1958
- Top-five weeks
- 4
- weeks ranked 1–5
- Longevity
- 20
- weeks with chart power
- Dominance
- 9.58%
- week of Aug 31, 1958
- 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 · 113 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| The Image Makers | #4 | 20 | 112.5 |
At their peak
1957 in books →Bernard Dryer's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from December 1957 to November 1958. The most powerful authors over those weeks:
- 1Robert Traver569
- 2James Gould Cozzens321
- 3Anya Seton297
- 4Edna Ferber266
- 5Jerome Weidman204
- 6Thomas B. Costain166
- 7Helen MacInnes154
- 8Vladimir Nabokov153
- 9Patrick Dennis141
- 10Sloan Wilson133
Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.
Their decade: the 1950s.