Authors · NYT Hardcover Fiction
Conrad Richter
Charting Jun 11, 1950 → Sep 1, 1957 · 14 weeks with chart power
- Peak Power
- 2.08%
- week of Aug 11, 1957
- Career Power
- 40
- share-weeks
- Crowns
- 0
- weeks crowned Author of the Week
- Peak Year
- 35
- September 1956 – September 1957
- Peak Five Years
- 35
- September 1952 – September 1957
- Top-five weeks
- 0
- weeks ranked 1–5
- Longevity
- 14
- weeks with chart power
- Dominance
- 4.79%
- week of Jun 30, 1957
- 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
2 books · 40 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.
At their peak
1956 in books →Conrad Richter's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from September 1956 to September 1957. The most powerful authors over those weeks:
- 1Grace Metalious643
- 2Meyer Levin413
- 3William Brinkley352
- 4Daphne Du Maurier331
- 5Frances Parkinson Keyes256
- 6Patrick Dennis230
- 7Edwin O'Connor202
- 8Gerald Green194
- 9Richard Powell180
- 10Nicholas Monsarrat156
Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.
Their decade: the 1950s.