Authors · NYT Hardcover Fiction
David Beaty
Charting Feb 13, 1955 → Feb 13, 1955 · 1 weeks with chart power
- Peak Power
- 0.20%
- week of Feb 13, 1955
- Career Power
- 2
- share-weeks
- Crowns
- 0
- weeks crowned Author of the Week
- Peak Year
- 2
- February 1954 – February 1955
- Peak Five Years
- 2
- February 1950 – February 1955
- Top-five weeks
- 0
- weeks ranked 1–5
- Longevity
- 1
- weeks with chart power
- Dominance
- 1.82%
- week of Feb 13, 1955
- 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| The Four Winds | #16 | 1 | 1.8 |
At their peak
1954 in books →David Beaty's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from February 1954 to February 1955. The most powerful authors over those weeks:
- 1Morton Thompson603
- 2Daphne Du Maurier344
- 3Irving Stone300
- 4Taylor Caldwell210
- 5Norah Lofts208
- 6John Steinbeck207
- 7James A. Michener195
- 8Frances Parkinson Keyes189
- 9Hamilton Basso184
- 10Kenneth Dodson180
Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.
Their decade: the 1950s.