Authors · NYT Hardcover Fiction
Budd Schulberg
Charting Jul 14, 1941 → Jul 1, 1951 · 47 weeks with chart power
Honours
Author of the Week
NYT Hardcover Fiction
8 crowns
19411951Longest reign 6 weeks (Dec 1950 – Jan 1951) · First crown Dec 1950
- Peak Power
- 11.75%
- week of Mar 25, 1951
- Career Power
- 420
- share-weeks
- Crowns
- 8
- weeks crowned Author of the Week
- Peak Year
- 357
- July 1950 – July 1951
- Peak Five Years
- 385
- July 1946 – July 1951
- Top-five weeks
- 30
- weeks ranked 1–5
- Longevity
- 47
- weeks with chart power
- Dominance
- 14.53%
- week of Dec 3, 1950
- Comebacks
- 2
- Sep 1947, after 6 quiet years · Nov 1950
Ranked by weekly Power Share, part of the ChartReign Power model — not the list's own positions. How it works →
Titles on the NYT Hardcover Fiction
3 books · 420 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 Disenchanted | #1 | 35 | 357.2 | ||
| What Makes Sammy Run? | #4 | 4 | 34.6 | ||
| The Harder They Fall | #9 | 8 | 27.9 |
At their peak
1950 in books →Budd Schulberg's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from July 1950 to July 1951. The most powerful authors over those weeks:
- 1Henry Morton Robinson454
- 2Budd Schulberg357
- 3Frances Parkinson Keyes343
- 4James Jones232
- 5Mika Waltari228
- 6Ernest Hemingway226
- 7Gwen Bristow192
- 8Frank Yerby190
- 9Robert Penn Warren175
- 10Nevil Shute152
Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.