Authors · NYT Hardcover Fiction
Charles Mergendahl
Charting Sep 21, 1958 → Nov 9, 1958 · 8 weeks with chart power
- Peak Power
- 1.57%
- week of Nov 9, 1958
- Career Power
- 20
- share-weeks
- Crowns
- 0
- weeks crowned Author of the Week
- Peak Year
- 20
- November 1957 – November 1958
- Peak Five Years
- 20
- November 1953 – November 1958
- Top-five weeks
- 0
- weeks ranked 1–5
- Longevity
- 8
- weeks with chart power
- Dominance
- 3.16%
- week of Oct 12, 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 · 20 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 Bramble Bush | #12 | 8 | 20.4 |
At their peak
1957 in books →Charles Mergendahl's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from November 1957 to November 1958. The most powerful authors over those weeks:
- 1Robert Traver552
- 2James Gould Cozzens350
- 3Anya Seton297
- 4Edna Ferber266
- 5Jerome Weidman195
- 6Thomas B. Costain188
- 7Helen MacInnes154
- 8Ayn Rand139
- 9Sloan Wilson133
- 10Elizabeth Goudge132
Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.
Their decade: the 1950s.