Authors · NYT Hardcover Fiction
Cleveland Amory
Charting Jan 29, 1950 → Mar 5, 1950 · 6 weeks with chart power
- Peak Power
- 1.23%
- week of Mar 5, 1950
- Career Power
- 15
- share-weeks
- Crowns
- 0
- weeks crowned Author of the Week
- Peak Year
- 15
- March 1949 – March 1950
- Peak Five Years
- 15
- March 1945 – March 1950
- Top-five weeks
- 0
- weeks ranked 1–5
- Longevity
- 6
- weeks with chart power
- Dominance
- 3.16%
- week of Feb 5, 1950
- 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 · 15 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Home Town | #12 | 6 | 15.0 |
At their peak
1949 in books →Cleveland Amory's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from March 1949 to March 1950. The most powerful authors over those weeks:
- 1John P. Marquand400
- 2Lloyd C. Douglas387
- 3Mika Waltari348
- 4John O'Hara300
- 5Edward Streeter254
- 6Sholem Asch219
- 7Taylor Caldwell198
- 8Frances Parkinson Keyes190
- 9Frank Yerby160
- 10F. Van Wyck Mason153
Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.
Their decade: the 1950s.