Authors · NYT Hardcover Fiction
Cecil St. Laurent
Charting May 25, 1952 → May 25, 1952 · 1 weeks with chart power
- Peak Power
- 0.23%
- week of May 25, 1952
- Career Power
- 2
- share-weeks
- Crowns
- 0
- weeks crowned Author of the Week
- Peak Year
- 2
- June 1951 – May 1952
- Peak Five Years
- 2
- June 1947 – May 1952
- Top-five weeks
- 0
- weeks ranked 1–5
- Longevity
- 1
- weeks with chart power
- Dominance
- 2.09%
- week of May 25, 1952
- 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 · 2 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Caroline Cherie | #15 | 1 | 2.1 |
At their peak
1951 in books →Cecil St. Laurent's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from June 1951 to May 1952. The most powerful authors over those weeks:
- 1Herman Wouk721
- 2Nicholas Monsarrat466
- 3James Jones427
- 4Irving Stone232
- 5John Marquand219
- 6James A. Michener197
- 7J.D. Salinger191
- 8Daphne Du Maurier189
- 9Graham Greene187
- 10Frank Yerby179
Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.
Their decade: the 1950s.