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Budd Schulberg portraitBudd Schulberg

Charting Jul 14, 1941Jul 1, 1951 · 47 weeks with chart power

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Author of the Week

  • NYT Hardcover Fiction

    8 crowns

    19411951

    Longest 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 →

Exponentially smoothed share of the week's total power (the primary metric).

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.

TitlePeakWeeksPower
The Disenchanted#135357.2
What Makes Sammy Run?#4434.6
The Harder They Fall#9827.9

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:

  1. 1Henry Morton Robinson454
  2. 2Budd Schulberg357
  3. 3Frances Parkinson Keyes343
  4. 4James Jones232
  5. 5Mika Waltari228
  6. 6Ernest Hemingway226
  7. 7Gwen Bristow192
  8. 8Frank Yerby190
  9. 9Robert Penn Warren175
  10. 10Nevil Shute152

Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.

Their decades: the 1940s, the 1950s.