Authors · NYT Hardcover Fiction
Davis Grubb
Charting Mar 14, 1954 → Oct 23, 1955 · 18 weeks with chart power
- Peak Power
- 5.74%
- week of Jun 6, 1954
- Career Power
- 108
- share-weeks
- Crowns
- 0
- weeks crowned Author of the Week
- Peak Year
- 106
- July 1953 – July 1954
- Peak Five Years
- 108
- October 1950 – October 1955
- Top-five weeks
- 7
- weeks ranked 1–5
- Longevity
- 18
- weeks with chart power
- Dominance
- 8.34%
- week of Apr 4, 1954
- 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 · 108 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 Night of the Hunter | #5 | 17 | 106.1 | ||
| A Dream of Kings | #15 | 1 | 2.1 |
At their peak
1953 in books →Davis Grubb's best twelve months on the NYT Hardcover Fiction list ran from July 1953 to July 1954. The most powerful authors over those weeks:
- 1Ernest K. Gann407
- 2A. J. Cronin366
- 3Annemarie Selinko335
- 4Morton Thompson334
- 5Leon Uris321
- 6Samuel Shellabarger315
- 7James A. Michener271
- 8James Hilton222
- 9Harnett T. Kane164
- 10Alan Paton157
Ranked by Era Power over the same weeks.
Their decade: the 1950s.